Word: impressively
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Spirito Church, commissioned by a Frescobaldi in the mid-1400s. The church is almost 150 years younger than the family's 700-year-old business. Now the Frescobaldis, best known for their sumptuous Brunello di Montalcino wine, are coming out of the Middle Ages, forming international alliances that would impress even their arch rivals, the Medicis, and embarking on a marketing strategy for the 21st century...
...historians. By next month, each Cabinet department and major agency must produce a 1,000-page history, so that the incumbents can put their institutional stamp on what went on during the Clinton years. Nothing like it has been ordered up since L.B.J. prepared to leave office and impress his Great Society upon posterity. The museum's themes will, predictably enough, revolve around the economy, globalization, the information age and foreign affairs. What about Monica and impeachment? Rutherford replies only by reading from a letter of advice that Clinton got from David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson: "I would not duck...
...hand, that was fine - they'd just better get it done in seven days if they wanted to be sure it would be included. The Bush team held up Volusia County, which merely hand-counted and filed to Harris without controversy, as a shining example. It seemed to impress the Justices more than Boies' arguments why the other counties had taken so long to start...
...disappointed in the work's brevity, but it's a godsend for anyone who wants a short read and craves history that flows more like gossip. And regardless of past History B pain, the book is a short enough read to justify it as an investment in the impress-people-at-dinner store of knowledge...
...Tomorrow's contest at Harvard Stadium will provide Balestracci with the biggest stage he has performed on to date. But as much as he will surely impress in tomorrow's game, the best may still be yet to come...