Word: em
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...McDonald's is planning to capitalize on the public's willingness to pay $4 for a cup of coffee by hiring baristas and dropping espresso machines in 14,000 of their fast-food outlets. Meanwhile, Starbucks, with business lagging, is fighting back with an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy, by offering heated breakfast sandwiches and adding drive-thru windows to some of their locations...
...greeted the results from Tuesday's New Hampshire primary voting with the same attitude: All those votes he was planning on getting? Well, they were just here! As late at 7 p.m. on election night, Jim MacEachern, Romney's Perry Township chair, was predicting a victory. "We've got 'em," he said, referring to the mobbed polling place he spoke from. (Meanwhile, at the McCain headquarters, aides were trying to suppress grins and quietly showing each other exit polls on their BlackBerrys, shading them with their hands so we mere mortals couldn...
...nope. This guy is, literally, unbelievable and completely at odds with the Romney festering on television screens and in mailings throughout Iowa and New Hampshire. That Romney is nonstop negative, and jingo-crazed about the perils of illegal immigration. He offers exclamations, not balm: John McCain wants to make 'em citizens! Mike Huckabee gave them college scholarships! And McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts! And Huckabee pardoned all these criminals when he was Governor of Arkansas, while Romney pardoned not a single one of his Massachusetts felons...
...Edwards sees it, the people standing in the way of progress are not Osama bin Laden or Kim Jong Il, not even George W. Bush and the Republicans. The evildoers that Edwards promises to vanquish - to the delight of most crowds; "Go get 'em, John" is a frequent shout from the crowd - are America's CEOs. "I see the CEO of one of the biggest health insurance companies in America making hundreds of millions of dollars last year in one year. I see Exxon Mobil making billions and billions of dollars in profit, record profits. The top 1% of Americans...
...extent that was beyond my greatest expectations? Every Republican candidate - even John McCain is now saying he was on the wrong side of the issue - has got the basics. You've got Rudy Giuliani running ads talking about securing the border. On the basics we've got 'em...