Word: happening
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...this post-women's liberation era - it did happen, although a lot of people seem to have forgotten this - it is hard to believe that an amply educated, allegedly intellectually eager woman like mother Eliza Welsh, the character played by Uma Thurman in Motherhood, would be at all surprised to find herself dissatisfied with frazzled days spent tethered to a stroller. But she genuinely seems to consider herself a pioneer, a truth teller of the not-entirely-pleased stay-at-home...
...that she set, but then it kind of went away. And now what Michelle Obama's been doing shows a new youthful style that is very refreshing but also practical for a young mother. I think it's just different; it is stylish in terms of what has to happen in Washington...
...spoke about his Cuban heritage. His parents had escaped Castro. "It is possible to lose your freedom. You can have your family business taken over by 'the people.' You can lose your country. My parents did," he said, while carefully adding that he wasn't saying that would happen here...
...meat - his was medium rare - but he did present a vision of the country at a crossroads of freedom and European-style socialism. "If we become like every other country, we will no longer be exceptional," he said. "And our children will ask us, Why did you let that happen?" (Read "GOP at War with Itself in Florida Senate Race...
...some economists believe that a coordinated global exit strategy, especially in regard to monetary policy, will ultimately happen, but by default. The Federal Reserve holds so much influence in the world economy that other central banks might be wary of deviating too far from its policy. "The nature of the coordination is not that bankers sit around a table and do things together," says the University of Leuven's De Grauwe. "The nature is that some of the big guys make a move and force everyone to move." In the global recovery, as in the downturn, everyone may sink...