Word: flash
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...three years ago when he credited his own "playboy" powers for persuading Finland's female prime minister to agree that a key European Union agency be accorded to Italy? And what prompted him to compare a German member of the European Parliament to a Nazi prison guard, or to flash two fingers of the cuckold behind the head of the Spanish foreign minister during the family photo at a European summit...
...million, depending on how you count. That figure does not include the $13 million that she loaned the campaign out of personal funds and will not get back. Nor does it account for the $5.2 million that she owes her former chief strategist Mark Penn - who is a flash point with some of her donors and whose bill, therefore, is not likely to be paid off anytime soon...
...Motley said. Ultimately, however, the Republican hopes were not fulfilled—both Obama and former IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen, a former New Hampshire governor running for U.S. Senate, proved successful in the Granite State. Shaheen was not the only member of the IOP family to flash across the forum’s screen last night—current IOP fellow Alex Castellanos also appeared as a commentator on CNN. Two blocks away, members of the Harvard College Democrats, the Kennedy School Democratic Caucus, the Harvard Business School Democrats, and the Harvard Law School Democrats packed the three floors...
...Obama leading over John McCain 60% to 40% among early voters. What's more, the number of early voters could approach 30% of all of Florida's 11.2 million registered voters by the actual Nov. 4 Election Day. That massive turnout prompted Florida's GOP governor, Charlie Crist, to flash his bipartisan bona fides this week and lengthen early voting on weekdays by four hours (while letting each county decide whether to lengthen the normal hours this weekend...
...Peter Jenkin Morgan was watching with a knowing eye on Sept. 15, when some 4,000 Lehman Brothers employees in London's Canary Wharf lost their jobs in a flash - and cut loose with abandon in the business district's pubs. Champagne corks popped, and conversations seemed to be on steroids as everyone wanted to talk. Surrounded by cardboard boxes holding their desk contents, the newly unemployed bankers drank for hours. For a night, at least, Canary Wharf looked like a carnival...