Word: fitful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about 30% complete - to cross a municipal golf course. Initially, the city welcomed the idea of stadium lights on the bluff overlooking the city and the construction of a decorative fence, but when the plans were revealed, the wall-like barrier prompted community opposition. "One size doesn't fit all," insists Foster, whose community of some 50,000 people has close business ties to neighboring Piedras Negras, a city three times the size of its U.S. neighbor. He has pressed for a variety of alternative approaches, including the use of sensors to detect illegal movement and the eradication of "Carrizo...
...help keep it afloat, and the additional $3 billion it hopes to obtain in March, carries the stipulation that the company move quickly to find ways to produce smaller, more fuel-efficient models, which have long been Fiat's bread and butter. "A Chrysler-Fiat partnership is a great fit," said Chrysler chairman Bob Nardelli in the joint communiqué. "It creates the potential for a powerful new global competitor." Nardelli pointed to Fiat's "competitive, fuel-efficient vehicle platforms, powertrain and components" as well as its distribution outside North America, including sales networks in Asia and Latin America...
...Cuban-born Toledo, who has been designing for 25 years and worked for a time at Anne Klein, is known in fashion circles as a "designer's designer" for her wit and whimsical sense of pattern, fit and fabric. The Manhattan-based designer also made the black tunic and palazzo pants that Obama wore to a fundraiser last June. But for her husband's swearing-in ceremony, Obama chose an elegantly sunny yellow, a color that for centuries has represented optimism. (See pictures of the fashion of Michelle Obama...
...this holed-up dive bar, one of the favorites on the Hill, Buffalo burgers and Yuengling pints are devoured by locals of all ages. Named for terms popularized during the Vietnam War, this low-key joint is a fun maze of backrooms, each designed to fit a different energy. Hop upstairs to the recently dedicated "Obama Loft" for some dancing. Obama had a fundraiser here in 2004; banners are stretched across each of the six rooms, personally welcoming the President in case he returns. A wall hanging displays campaign stickers from recent years, with slapstick slogans like "Let's Kerry...
...Hard to imagine that at his zenith, George W. Bush would ever have wanted to quote the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, but one of Trotsky's famous lines would have fit perfectly into his farewell. "You may not be interested in war," Bush said in essence, "but war is interested...