Word: floor
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...Hare asks Henry. Hare then steps back until he's standing between a pair of inverted plastic cups on the floor. He quickly puts the hand holding the biscuit under one cup, then the other, and holds up both empty hands. Hare could run a very profitable shell game. No one in the room--neither dog nor human--can tell which cup hides the biscuit. (See a video on how dogs think like...
Ayers, though, has a conveniently short memory: only two Democrats were involved in the negotiations surrounding the Medicare Prescription Drug measure. Once a bill like that gets to the floor, members have a much harder time voting down legislation that could help thousands, if not millions, of constituents. For that reason, Democrats are hoping the health-care bill will be a work of compromise so that, when they do get enough votes to bring it to the floor, it will be hard for Republicans to vote against...
...Murphy blurs the distinction between what Kennedy achieved on the gridiron and on the Senate floor, and perhaps he’s not unreasonable in doing so, as Kennedy’s personal development through success and failure as a Harvard football player was manifest in his approach to his political career...
Most people only know Kid Cudi, born Scott Mescudi, as the “‘Day ‘n’ Nite’ guy,” after his 2008 surprise hit that rocketed the then-unknown artist to dance floor notoriety. Recognized by the few familiar with the artist as “Dat Kid from Cleveland,” Kid Cudi has been amassing a small following over the past few years, releasing mixtapes and appearing on—as well as contributing songwriting to—Kanye West?...
...option to the measure as an alternative for providing coverage to the uninsured. While some liberals in the Senate have gone so far as to say they will not vote for a bill that does not include a public option, Baucus said it would not pass on the Senate floor. He said, however, that one "live possibility" is the idea of adding a so-called trigger that would create a public plan if private insurance companies fail to do enough to bring down costs and make coverage available to enough Americans. That is an idea that has been proposed...