Word: impressiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Congress is exhibiting its usual election-year pathologies. Democrats, wary of being lumped in with al-Qaeda should they introduce a bill that protects the rights of terrorism suspects, are calling on the White House to make the first move. Republican lawmakers are already divided between those eager to impress security-minded voters back home with a tough new tribunal and others, like Virginia's John Warner, who warn that moving too quickly or too carelessly might lead to another embarrassing showdown with the Supreme Court. It may take months to achieve the harmonic balance between good policy and good...
...That's probably not fair to either Warner, who's been working hard to buff up his foreign policy chops, or the bloggers. But the ersatz press conference seemed of a piece with the chocolate fountain the night before - elaborate, fussy, and meant to impress but ultimately messy and not very filling...
...need an espresso machine. Even afterwards, the goal is to impress future employers, for whom you will burn midnight oil hoping for a larger December bonus. Someone at the Office of Career Services even told me my freshman summer was “the last time when I could truly do something I… just enjoyed...
...that Congressional pin that can get you around Hill metal detectors, well, that and $2,800 can buy you a really nice dinner. It's not even much of a chick magnet; in 2003, New Jersey Representative Mike Ferguson made the Washington Post with his late-night attempt to impress a Georgetown student...
...Yuan ’06 started writing music for the same reason that many young men start writing music: to impress a girl...