Word: hadn
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...give up the day-to-day lifestyle perks that have created what Fred Wertheimer, head of the watchdog group Democracy 21, calls a "culture of entitlement." Congressmen have always envied the corporate life, and never tire of telling you how much more money they would be making if they hadn't selflessly decided to run for office. In recent years, as commercial airline travel has become an ordeal, nothing has been more precious to them than the ability to catch a corporate jet when they wanted to, paying only a fraction of the real cost, out of either government funds...
...late, great silkscreen panels of Oceania, which can be seen at the National Gallery of Australia. "From the first, the enchantments of the sky there, the fish, and the coral in the lagoons, plunged me into the inaction of total ecstasy," Matisse would recall. "The local tones of things hadn't changed, but their effect in the light of the Pacific gave me the same feeling as I had when I looked into a large golden chalice...
...book is not about my legal case. Although I deal with it in the first chapter, it's about 5% of the book. And I know because I counted the words. When I first started writing the book, that hadn't even happened. I put it in the first chapter because there's an elephant-in-the-room quality about it. But the downside is that a lot of people have had the impression that it is some sort of tell-all book about my legal debacle...
...getting hard to find many Americans who remember where they were the last time men set foot on the moon. Not only had most of us quit paying attention to lunar landings by then, but 48% of us hadn't even been born by December 1972, when the last moon walkers left the lunar surface and headed for home...
...Even so, Gates's straight talk impressed Senate Democrats and Republicans. And it appeared to rattle the White House. Press Secretary Tony Snow insisted to reporters that Bush hadn't nominated a loose cannon. "If you want to try get a nuanced and full understanding of where Bob Gates stands on these issues with regard to the President and his policies and the definition of what it is to win in Iraq and what it takes, then I think you're going to find he agrees" with Bush, Snow labored to explain...