Word: finals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...name some of his mistakes. Now, with four years to think about it, he's identified a few. Note to future Presidents: Don't stand under a banner declaring MISSION ACCOMPLISHED unless you're darn sure it has been. "It sent the wrong message," Bush explained at his final press conference. The event was equal parts wistful, wry, confessional and defiant. Set it to music and you'd have Sinatra...
...Clinton's response was that she wouldn't even know who was pledging money to her husband's foundation, but Lugar stuck to his guns and issued one final, powerful warning. "I am hopeful that as we go through the history of this, that people will not say, well, Senator Lugar and Senator Kerry and others were prescient; they saw the problems. And we'll get full credit, but that will not be helpful to our foreign policy, to you, your husband and the foundation. And this is why I plea for you really to give even more consideration...
...that doesn't mean "he would have done things exactly the way [Paulson] did them," says a source. Geithner, for example, wants to overhaul the dysfunctional, taxpayer-funded Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) - initially intended to buy bad assets from banks. The new Administration wants to use the final $350 billion of the bailout program to reduce the number of home foreclosures and funnel additional capital directly to banks and other lenders...
Makrides asked 272 nursing moms who had given birth prematurely to take six omega-3 capsules a day, to mimic the 1% ratio that full-term babies receive in their final months in the womb. A control group of 273 similar moms took six capsules of soy, a placebo. Overall, the two groups showed no differences in cognitive tests 18 months later, but when Makrides looked at the data by gender, she found that girls getting the omega-3 supplemented breast milk did slightly better than girls receiving regular milk. The smallest premature babies also showed more benefit from...
...question about why Washington had remained so partisan despite his promise eight years ago to be a "uniter, not a divider," Bush said, "I don't know," and suggested asking others. Even his reaching for the safety of history reflects a kind of myopia. In that sense, Bush's final press conference was most revealing for what it showed about his inability to accept responsibility for his presidency. The difference between Bush's mistakes and his disappointments may just be that he hasn't yet taken ownership of the latter. But the American people have no difficulty connecting the failures...