Word: hallmarked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that give you a headache,” he says, outlining his routine procedure. “I return them first. Then, I return the rest.”Sullivan, who is running for reelection to the City Council on Tuesday, says that he makes returning calls personally a hallmark of his administration in order to reinforce his connection to constituents.“It’s not about being the politician. I actually spend time doing my homework to make things better,” says Sullivan, who is in his 12th year serving on the council.On Tuesday...
...clash of ideas, the Bush administration has evacuated the content from their claims to conservatism, leaving only an empty husk of special interests, a coalition of hungry lobbyists looking for corporate handouts and Senators at the trough of pork-barrel politics. Most conservatives never liked Bush’s hallmark “compassionate conservatism” catchphrase—does it mean that real conservatism is heartless?—but there was always hope that somewhere, buried beneath the steel tariffs and bloated highway bills, there was a core of actual philosophy...
...soon. Fights would get bad enough that Shane spends stretches at a time with his grandmother, who takes him with her to the bar where she works. While she flirts with customers, making him "feel weird," Shane drinks "flat cokes" and eats "smoke-flavored pretzels." Such details become a hallmark of North Country, bringing scenes alive. One sad and telling sequence finds Shane delighted by an old piano left in a house into which his family moves. "But the music didn't last," he writes over a frame of his father smashing the instrument. "To make more room, they dismantled...
When Paul Robeson first played Othello on Broadway in 1943, he was given a twenty-minute standing ovation. Robeson was the first African-American actor to take the role of Othello in over a century, and his hallmark production showed both how much progress America had made on issues of race...
...Clark can lead her Labour party to victory on Sept. 17 in a general election, she will be free to continue the frugal economic management and progressive social makeover that have been the hallmark of her winning ways since 1999. After the country's stagnation in the '90s, and the reform shocks of the preceding decade, the Clark era has been a prosperous one. "There is no mood for radical change in our country," Clark declared at her campaign launch in Auckland on Aug. 21. Economic output has grown by an average of 4% a year; the country's unemployment...