Word: dicks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...from now all of you will go to polling places,” he said. “Here is the good news: the name George W. Bush will not be on the ballot.” To laughter, he added, “the name of my cousin, Dick Cheney, will not be on the ballot.” The vice president and Obama are eighth cousins. Obama, Illinois’ junior senator, addressed the audience on the hot-button issues of healthcare, education, and Iraq. He said he plans to pay teachers more money, make college more affordable...
...searching for a way to wile away the hours after failing to line up a summer job, I turned to the “Serious Books” shelf of my bookcase. Stocked with classics like “The Brothers Karamazov” and “Moby Dick,” it’s the place where I put all of the thick, intimidating (mostly Russian) novels relatives have given...
...payday that shook Wall Street: nearly $140 million in compensation set aside for Big Board chairman Dick Grasso. But when Grasso, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, tried in 2003 to cash in early, the revelations about his staggering paycheck triggered an imbroglio that ended his eight-year reign as King of the Club and brought a lawsuit by then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Was Grasso, who was interviewed for the book, a victim of the post-Enron era or just another fat-cat CEO? Both. Gasparino insists that Grasso was "one of the most remarkable...
...Obama has also begun to sharpen one of his strongest arguments - that experience is not the same thing as judgment - for which Clinton has not yet found a rejoinder. One of the biggest applause lines in his stump speech has been the note that "Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld had two of the longest résumés in Washington, but that experience didn't translate into good judgment." After Clinton mocked Obama's assertion in mid-November that his years spent living in Indonesia as a child gave him strong experience in foreign relations, his campaign revised...
...Bush convened a new round of Arab-Israeli talks. It came a month earlier, across the Chesapeake Bay in the little village of St. Michaels, as Bush signed an Executive Order protecting red drum fish and striped bass. Bush was on his way to lunch with Vice President Dick Cheney, who has a waterfront home there, and the President opened his signing remarks by saying that Laura Bush had gone ahead to the lunch. "I guess you could say she's the taster," Bush said...