Word: lament
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...items on DeMint's list of lament read like talking points to jump-start Monday afternoon's conversation in Chicago between McCain and Obama. According to an Obama aide, the President-elect views McCain as a potential ally on the kind of reform issues for which the two men share broad agreement. "There are areas of general agreement and beliefs - on immigration, earmark reform, energy, climate change, government reform, spending reform," says the aide. "Where there's agreement on both sides, they want to figure out ways they can work together...
...Kong often go to good private schools and have MP3 players, there is a growing sentiment that trading global dollars for a generation raised on cell-phone minutes is a raw deal. Carandang, who works with families of migrant workers, named her most recent book after one boy's lament for his mother working as a caregiver in the Middle East: "The light of the home is gone...
Missouri's GOP Lament, 11:30 p.m. E.T. Missouri's foremost Republican statesman, former Senator John Danforth, sounded blue on the phone. "I am blue - I'm a blue guy who should be red." Missouri's vote was still out, but the national tide was clear. He squarely put the blame on the White House. "A very large part of it is that people are sick of Bush, and they just want to get rid of anything and anyone associated with...
...education. We recognize that both short-term and long-term measures of improving special-needs education require a significant amount of funding that Palin has said a McCain administration will provide as an exception to an overall funding freeze. We are appreciative of such a promise. We do, however, lament that the funding freeze will broadly constrain educational improvements. Although special-needs education is an exceptional case, there are many faults with the general education system that we believe extra funding would help fix.According to a study done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, autism spectrum disorders...
...performance was the descent of an enormous, illuminated pumpkin into the ballroom, with Cornejo perched elegantly inside, shrouded in a Cruella de Vil-like fur cape. Bachelors in penguin suits escorted bachelorettes with wonderful gusto. As Prince Charming, Nelson Madrigal had all of the second act to lament in a style reminiscent of Prince Siegfried’s melancholy soliloquy in “Swan Lake.” Though lacking overwhelming charisma, he made up for it with his superb partnering of an audacious Cornejo. Her abrupt, instinctual shifts in direction as she leapt at his shoulder felt...