Word: leaning
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...whites are never taken off the hook until they (institutions more than individuals) give some form of racial preference to the challenger. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are today's best known challengers. Of course, most blacks can and do go both ways, but generally we tend to lean one way or another...
...companies of allies like China to replace Western oil outfits--a prospect that pains Washington, especially since Chávez is ratcheting up oil exports to China to reduce dependence on the U.S. market. Chavistas argue that if the U.S. is so concerned about global oil supply, it should lean on its own petro-allies--like Mexico and Saudi Arabia--which ban the foreign participation in oil ventures that Venezuela at least still allows. (Oil production in Mexico is also in serious decline...
Maybe. But some nonbelievers are beginning to think they might need something for their children. "When you have kids," says Julie Willey, a design engineer, "you start to notice that your co-workers or friends have church groups to help teach their kids values and to be able to lean on." So every week, Willey, who was raised Buddhist and says she has never believed in God, and her husband pack their four kids into their blue minivan and head to the Humanist Community Center in Palo Alto, Calif., for atheist Sunday school...
...clobber alone demands a double take. In blue sports coat and strides, white slip-ons sans socks, and with a splash of bling around his tanned neck, he looks less like Australia's third longest-serving Prime Minister than a 1970s bookie. Then again, with his lean frame and flowing mane, Bob Hawke also looks terrific for a bloke who'll turn 78 a fortnight after the Nov. 24 election. Rich nowadays and in want of nothing material, what he'd like most for his birthday is a change of government. On this warm weekday afternoon, at a mall...
...political platforms. The Web site also posts news and opinion pieces from a variety of outside sources, after VoteGopher’s editors have screened the articles. One of the Web site’s content editors, Elizabeth L. Altmaier ’10, said that when opinion pieces lean toward one side, the author’s reasoning should be “fair and thoroughly explained.” This policy comes from VoteGopher’s mission to be an “information hub” where voters can find balanced information, Ruben said. Bloggers from...