Word: earlier
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...premiere earlier this month in Frankfurt, Hope - The Obama Musical Story received a standing ovation from a crowd of 2,000 mostly adoring Obama fans, proving that while the President's popularity may have waned in the U.S. during his difficult first year in office, he remains a larger-than-life figure in Europe. "Germans have a certain connection to Obama, which proved to be beneficial," American co-creator Randall Hutchins told TIME after the debut on Jan. 17. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...Earlier this month, someone in China hacked into the Google account of a Stanford student named Tenzin Seldon, a known Tibetan activist. Whether or not Google decides to stay in China, the fact that these hackings have targeted people like Seldon—a student at an American university—has generated some unease in Washington, where the Obama administration has reiterated its concerns about international computer security and the possibility of further attacks on larger corporations...
...race in an effort to rescue Coakley - had been "surprised and frustrated" by the turn the race had taken. And David Axelrod, the President's chief political strategist, told the Baltimore Sun, "The White House did everything we were asked to do. I think if we had been asked earlier, we would have responded earlier." But the Coakley campaign, in a memo leaked to Politico.com, blamed "the failure of national Democrats to support Coakley," saying the national party had ignored the campaign's warning that a political catastrophe...
...After initially seeming to come out in public support of Ozawa earlier this month, Hatoyama has since taken more of a wait-and-see stance. It's not helping his falling approval ratings, which, at 41.5%, are now lower than his disapproval rate of 44.1%, according to a recent Kyodo News poll. Last month, news broke that contributions from Hatoyama's mother were recorded as political funds coming from other donors - some of whom were dead. Hatoyama has promised to pay hundreds of millions of yen in tax on that sum, but the damage control has been slow. Still, according...
...latest activity is further west, about 10 miles north of Old Faithful Geyser and nine miles from the gateway entrance town of West Yellowstone, Montana. One quake at 2:31 p.m. Mountain Time registered a 3.7 magnitude. It followed five earlier quakes of at least magnitude 3. (See pictures of a volcano awakening in the Philippines...