Word: flank
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Clinton leaned heavily on his left flank early in his term and soon discovered no one else was following him. Bush clung to his base from the start - and never budged. (Both men were re-elected; Clinton by moving to the middle; Bush by refusing to do so.) I doubt either man would repeat their strategy if they could do it all over again. While there aren't many centrist votes in Congress to build anything around anymore, there are legislative proposals that moderate voters will appreciate...
...whisks you past gleaming gas stations and a brand-new Samsung TV factory. Then everything slows down. The highway turns single-track and becomes progressively rougher. For the last 20 miles (32 km), you bump along the ruts, distracted only by the swaying rows of silver birch trees that flank the road...
...admit Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. But Russia also has a direct interest in the outcome in Afghanistan. Moscow has made clear that a NATO failure in Afghanistan would be a disaster for Moscow, because a Taliban victory would spur an Islamist challenge all along Russia's southern flank. Better to have NATO stop the jihadists than to have to rely on Russian troops...
Andersson and Thomas R. Compton ’09, vice president of the cast for the Hasty Pudding, will sit next to Zellweger in the convertible, while members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals—dressed in drag—flank the car. The parade will end at New College Theater on Holyoke Street, where Andersson and Compton will roast Zellweger...
...steam-powered White House e-mail system recently crashed. Add to all that the fact that much of Barack Obama's economic team is still finding its way around the White House, and it's somewhat remarkable that this economic wunderkind turned Obama adviser is moving at flank speed on the biggest restructuring of the U.S. economy since the New Deal...