Word: formerly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...change: "Bureaucratic reform is one of my top priorities and so is combating corruption. If we achieve this, we can create a conducive climate for our economy to grow and our people to prosper." Dumping a marriage-of-convenience Vice President from his first term, SBY selected respected former central banker Boediono as his No. 2 this time around; despite political pressure, he has kept on Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, whose commitment to cleaning up Indonesia's regulatory morass has delighted foreign investors even as it has irked some of the President's closest advisers, who didn't appreciate...
...coup for the GOP, former federal prosecutor Christie ousted Corzine in a heavily Democratic state where Obama won by 15 points. A sputtering economy, high property taxes and a massive public corruption scandal involving several Corzine allies all took their toll on the incumbent...
After none of six candidates won a majority in the nonpartisan race, city-council member Norwood will face former state lawmaker Reed in a Dec. 1 runoff. Norwood would be Atlanta's first white mayor in 36 years...
RIHANNA, pop singer, on the unprecedented levels of media attention she endured after she was assaulted by former boyfriend Chris Brown in February...
BILL CLINTON, on his wife Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's response to an 11-ft. (3.6 m) bronze statue of the former U.S. President unveiled in Pristina, Kosovo, on Nov. 1. It honors his role in pushing for NATO intervention in 1999, which stopped Serb forces' crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians...