Word: driftings
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...could offer a plausible motive for kidnapping. Rybkin was never a threat to Putin's chances of re-election, but his allegations do underline a problem for the President. Putin will almost certainly win by a landslide in March, but the West is concerned about his apparent drift toward authoritarianism, and the Rybkin affair won't help. It once again raises the prospect that, with or without the President's knowledge, his men might be up to their old tricks...
...about 600,000 people have signed up at the campaign's website. Even if all of them were active in the campaign, they would constitute a support base about the size of the population of Vermont. In the meantime, the political establishment has no intention of letting Dean supporters drift away. Representatives from the Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) have visited the Dean campaign to hear its ideas and on their own have started blogs, Meetups and special drives to solicit small donations. "They're already on top of it, and that's the first time I've seen the D.N.C...
...eyes on the genuine planet anytime soon. As of last week, however, Building 29 could become the center of the universe--or at least the center of NASA's universe. For the first time in a long time, cosmic planners were given reason to hope that after decades of drift, the U.S. is at last back in the space game...
...willingness to believe in things we can feel but cannot see. When I was very young, I used to sit in the living room as Christmas night came to an end, looking at the tree, the lights, the mess of toys and wrappings, and I would feel a sadness drift through me. The dismantling would soon begin, and all that anticipation would have to wait for another year. How did I get from that to the way so many of us feel now--relief that it's over, emotionally spent after meeting our holiday-preparation deadlines? Maybe...
...didn't know my Dad--he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life. Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking...