Word: fronting
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...country Southern African Development Community (SADC) - tended to avoid public attacks. A year ago, albeit after a full decade of repression, that "quiet diplomacy," to use former South African President Thabo Mbeki's phrase, finally helped yield a power-sharing deal between Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the longtime opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). (See pictures of Robert Mugabe's reign...
...think the Socratic method is extremely effective for television,” she said. “Offering the public a sort of front row seat to a Harvard course is an exciting opportunity...
...what’s most amazing to me as a young person trying to make sense out of the health-care saga is that, basically overnight, Joe Wilson made himself a central player in the health-care debate. His name may fade from the front pages in a couple of days, but his outburst will have left an indelible mark on the process...
...think the audience was in the chamber. I think the audience was in the viewing public out there, to help them understand and reset the message that health-care reform benefits everybody one way or another," said moderate Nebraska Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, standing by the Capitol in front of a bus about to take him and 16 other Democrats to the White House for a chat with the President on health care. "I'm not going to commit to anything until I see everything, because there are so many moving parts to this process, and a lot of them...
...those watching said they might favor his health-care proposal, which was a 14-point jump from before the President gave the address on Sept. 9 to a packed House chamber. But as Bill Clinton - or his wife, the Secretary of State, who was sitting in the front row - could tell Obama, it's best not to get too euphoric at the way a speech can make the numbers jump. After all, Clinton got virtually the identical result the day after he gave a similar speech on his own health-care plan in that same spot 16 years...