Word: fore
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...that she was showing the frustration that had been building for days. Clinton is not a touchy-feely woman who has hidden her emotions all these years. She is cold and calculating, and I'm sure in future months we will see the real lady come to the fore, the one who will take no prisoners and will do anything to get the nomination. Susan Kraebber, West Lafayette...
What has brought to the fore many of these long-simmering tensions between the Clintons and the senior ranks of the party has been the emergence of Bill Clinton as his wife's chief attack dog against Obama. "This is exactly what the next eight years will look like if she gets elected," fumes a nationally prominent Democrat. Two weeks before Kennedy came out publicly for Obama, Kennedy confronted Bill Clinton about his hardfisted tactics in an angry late-night phone call...
...candidate who has based much of his appeal as a straight-talking, different kind of politician, the spat over his honesty couldn't have come at a worse time. While McCain succeeded in bringing Iraq to the fore, the flare-up between the two threatens to undo the relatively positive round of coverage that followed high-profile endorsements from Gov. Charlie Crist and Sen. Mel Martinez...
...says, "I feel more American sometimes than most Americans." His accent, unlike the man himself, still pays dues to his homeland, but also owes a few of its cadences to California. Yet Ringo sees himself as a typical Liverpudlian at least in one respect. "I bring humor to the fore," he says. "It's a defense. Give me an opening and I'm in. When I was a kid, you went to the pub and people would have some sort of quick retort to what you said. A lot of it would put you down, but it would also bring...
...political machine of the governing National Front, which has dominated the country since independence. Yet the 68-year-old PM's tenure is dogged by the same ills - alleged graft, inefficiency, ethnic and religious rivalry - that he had promised to combat. Questions about Abdullah's leadership came to the fore earlier this year when his deputy, Najib Razak, stunned the country by defining Malaysia as an Islamic state, going so far as to say the country had never been secular. (The nation's constitution is unclear about the issue, stating both that Islam is the religion of the federation...