Word: haloed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...McCain is traveling with the U.N.'s World Food Programme, whose work she monitored in Southeast Asia and Africa this spring and summer. McCain plans to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and to visit wounded Georgian soldiers. She would also visit representatives of the HALO Trust, which works to remove land mines and on whose board she serves...
...halo has faded. Political opponents say Ho hasn't responded quickly enough to the city's growing problems. A light-rail system, needed to ease congestion in the city, was first proposed in 2003 but construction still hasn't begun. Labor advocates have demanded the government further restrict competition from foreign workers, build public housing and raise the minimum wage to alleviate the financial strain in the working class. Ho's administration was also brushed by scandal when his former Transport and Public Works Secretary, Ao Man-long, was sentenced to 27 years in prison in January for taking kickbacks...
CLUELESS, Mean Girls and Pretty in Pink to be made into video games. And you thought Halo was violent...
John McCain is trying to take the halo off Barack Obama and portray him as a typical flip-flopping politician. "He's a calculating politician," Senator Lindsey Graham, a top McCain ally, says of Obama in a typical remark. Obama is making the Republicans' work easy. He is changing position after position, at the cost of sullying his reputation as a man who wants to change politics as usual. The candidates' strategies dovetail perfectly - which means one of them is making a big mistake...
...devoting cable channels to it. Yes, the show's concept is hokey--Begley's Green Acres bickering with his less eco-minded wife--and it relies too heavily on star cameos. But at least Begley presents his choices as being about something bigger than generating his own solar-powered halo...