Word: doneness
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...Mark never finished high school, and I came from a family of immigrants and was a first-generation American. We realized what education had done for us, so we wanted to do something to try to increase the act of higher education,” Aktipis said...
...issues like the water bill, like CAFTA [the Central America Free Trade Agreement] and I voted against the Administration when I didn't think their priorities were right for my state. But I'm proud. I worked for this Administration for two years. I'm proud to have done that. I make no apologies for being a conservative, for being a Republican...
...efficient. I think the private sector, by its nature, is going to be more flexible, more efficient, more creative. But there's an important role for government to play. A good example of this is on the federal level was back in the '90s, when welfare reform was done as a bipartisan initiative. From the conservative perspective, there was an expectation that you should work, you should go get an education, you have responsibilities. But from a more liberal perspective, I think it was also fair to say that if you do those things then society will help...
...that has those things, you can't reasonably ask them to give up those things and come back. In a way - and this is an odd silver lining out of a destructive storm that nobody asked for - it allows us to leapfrog and make bigger changes than can be done elsewhere. We're now getting to rebuild - in some cases from scratch - our schools, our health care infrastructure, our transportation infrastructure. We now have the opportunity to incorporate the best technology, the latest thinking, in a way that other communities can't always do. It's not a good thing...
...Deerfield, New Hampshire, after attending a house party for Obama in August. Hutchinson, who works on the Democratic staff of the New Hampshire House Minority Leader - a Clinton supporter -spent third and fourth grades in Pakistan, and she sees Obama as the only candidate who can undo the damage done by the Bush Administration to America's reputation in the world. "Life experience is a really important factor for me. And the fact that he's lived abroad and the fact that he has family in different arenas gives him perspective and will help him makes decisions on the world...