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Word: imprints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Having divvied out the perennial “hot spots” in the world to the members of an A-list of special envoys, Hillary Clinton seems to be putting her own imprint and betting her opportunity for an enduring legacy on the China-climate change connection. Watch for this issue to have great prominence for her in the months and years to come...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: Hillary Goes to China | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...pushing for too much in a new piece of equipment makes little sense. Gates "recognizes that simply adding more and more does not necessarily mean better and better," Obama said. But for a Pentagon accustomed to having its way with the White House - and it nervously awaits Obama's imprint on its 2010 budget - those are fighting words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the White House Choppers Spiraled Out of Control | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...This blatant show of racism left an imprint on both the bus driver and the schoolchildren. That this event took place not in 1958, but in 2008, well after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and soon after the election of an African-American president, indicates how much work remains to be done in combating racial discrimination...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: The Post-Racial Myth | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

Georges Pompidou had his controversial cultural center. Jacques Chirac got his showcase of indigenous art. And in between François Mitterrand left his imprint on Paris with a veritable building binge that included the Louvre pyramid, Bastille Opera, and Arch at la Défense. Given the grand construction legacies of his predecessors, is there anything unusual about current French President Nicolas Sarkozy's effort to create a new museum dedicated to French history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong With a Museum of French History? | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

...with prostate cancer. In 1974, the former Royal Air Force officer left England to join Harvard's chemistry department, eventually taking a top post as dean—a position he would later take up again in 2006. He had once said "Deans don’t make an imprint any more than gardeners trample on flower beds," but for all the modesty of his remark, it doesn't ring quite true in retrospect...

Author: By Crimson News Staff | Title: Top 10 Stories of 2008 | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

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