Word: foraying
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Sooner or later the politicians were bound to weigh in. On Nov. 7, Stephen Harper announced he was "concerned" about the dollar's "unprecedented" rise, an unusual Prime Ministerial foray on to Bank of Canada turf. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty met with the PM the next day, calling for lower interest rates and a federal contribution to a $1.1 billion jobs fund for struggling Ontario manufacturers. (Harper made no promises.) The same day, the Quebec Premier was demanding a loonie summit with all the provincial Premiers. (One is now scheduled for January). Just six weeks after the loonie achieved parity...
...candidate of nobility would not be diminished by Oprah's status as a consumer guide. She even joked that she knew endorsing him was not the same as endorsing a new refrigerator. At the same time, neither would Oprah's role as a cultural arbiter be diminished by her foray into politics. When her speech reached its climax, the touchstone was not the words of Martin Luther King Jr. (though he was mentioned), but a novel: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. The slave Jane Pittman, Oprah said, looks for the one who might free her for years, asking...
...occasionally, in crowds. That’s not to say that the record is a total failure. The band’s more zealous supporters will hail the album as yet another strong showing from the godfathers of modern dance music. Each track is a unique, vaguely interesting foray into synthesizers and beats—some even boast the accompaniment of Midas-touch producer Timbaland and pop-castrato Justin Timberlake. If the record ever makes it to the DJ booth, there will be a few intoxicated enough to dance to these songs, at least until they realize they?...
...Without question, Winfrey's foray onto the campaign trail will get Obama more publicity and a chance to convert her fans into Obama supporters...
Remember those precious high school years? The dabbling in drugs, alcohol, and those first awkward forays into love and sex? That time when we didn’t have pestering things like midterms, problem sets, or eRecruiting to worry about? OK, maybe most Harvard students spent most of their teenage years saving Darfur and curing AIDS. But whether you got all of those beautiful awakenings in high school or during a crash-course on one hazy night on your first weekend at Harvard, they were undoubtedly great times. Watching Sophia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette?...