Word: drumbeating
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Fear and despair returned to Asian stock markets on Friday as a drumbeat of bad economic news helped send share prices across the region plunging to historic losses...
Kept up a drumbeat of criticism against Barack Obama and, to a lesser extent, Biden - but produced no sound-bite moment and was unable to rattle her opponent. Most dramatically, she charged that the Democratic ticket wants to wave a "white flag of surrender" in Iraq. Firmly hit her campaign's main themes (Obama equals higher taxes and Washington business as usual). Ably brandished the opposition research on Obama's record and promises...
...second group is more amorphous; call them the Coalition of the Flabbergasted. From the moment John McCain announced his choice of the rookie governor of a remote state as his running mate, they have generated a drumbeat of skepticism so intense that Palin has nowhere to go but up. Politicians spend a lot of time playing the expectations game, but in this case Palin may win by forfeit, because her opponents have set the bar somewhere around her shins...
...week when oil prices shot to $143 a barrel, the mood at the World Petroleum Congress in Madrid is surprisingly somber. Perhaps the oil company CEOs and OPEC ministers, gathered for the biggest conference in the industry's calendar, are feeling besieged by the relentless drumbeat of public outrage. Perhaps they have been worn down by their ongoing efforts to blame each other for spiraling prices. Or maybe they just think it in poor taste to gloat about their record profits. But even Monday's news that Iraq would open six of its oil fields to international contracts - news that...
...With the revelations made in the past week, Americans ought to wonder whether they have ever actually seen this president stare down a storm on his own, and whether he has ever, with the privilege of principle and information on his side, overruled the bleak drumbeat of his éminence grise. And, if not, we may be forced to ask if he is instead merely a overgrown boy, coasting along a dark sea—full of bravado, without a care, and with...