Word: frayed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Huckabee knows that the attacks are only helping his candidacy, helping him stand out with undecided voters looking for a sunny alternative to all the doom and gloom coming from Romney and Rudy Giuliani. In fact, the former Arkansas governor is clearly relishing the fray, as he did in the YouTube debate. "You notice I didn't jump in the middle of it, I was more than willing to stand back and enjoy the show," said Huckabee, who then added a NASCAR analogy. "When you've got several cars on the track and to get to bumping each other, there...
...Obama's offensive risks tainting his image as an above-the-fray candidate, he at least starts with a reservoir of high favorability numbers: in a recent Washington Post/ABC poll of likely Iowa voters, 31% found Obama to be the most honest and trustworthy Democratic candidate - about twice the number who said that of Clinton - and three-quarters gave him credit for being candid...
Keeping his distance has other strategic value for the French President. "Should this become a Thatcherian struggle with unions for survival, Sarkozy's position above the fray will allow him to appeal directly to the public for it to choose sides - meaning his," Mistral says. "By resurfacing as things really get tough, he's in a better position to make a convincing appeal that he'll now try to over come union defiance - but will need demonstrative backing of the public...
...achieve," Mukesh Ambani, chairperson and managing director of Reliance Industries, told shareholders at the annual general meeting last week, adding that resistance to big retail would abate once benefits begin to show. Another conglomerate, the $4.5 billion Mahindra Group, announced plans to enter the organized retail fray on the same day as the Mumbai protest. India's government, in a possible attempt to placate its leftist partners, has commissioned a study on the impact of organized retail on small stores to come up with measures to help them cope. As Guruswamy points out, "organized retail is the future...
...regular. But she usually has ample time and a heftier budget. For this dress, Baird needs to cut some corners—and she’s unlikely to have enough time to hem them. Luckily, she finds both navy and gold lycra, which conveniently don’t fray and stretch to allow “mistake room” for fitting on the fly. Armed with fabric, cheap thread and a leftover dollar (“for emergencies”), Baird rushes to her 1 p.m. class. Three hours later, she returns to her lair?...