Word: markedly
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...group of actors sat in folding chairs, arranged in a semi-circle. They read lines from scripts resting on black music stands. “Talk of children at the age of 20 is a definite mark of crazy,” one actor said. He played a character named Nick, an English major with serious game. The audience roared with laughter, but he wasn’t finished yet. “You need to learn when to pull out...of a relationship,” Nick quipped. Where could you have listened to the advice of such...
...fear is fear itself" sound familiar? - Roosevelt had been in office barely 24 hours when he declared a four-day bank holiday and drafted the Emergency Banking Act, which helped calm a financial panic that was quickly spiraling out of control. By the time he hit the 100-day mark, Roosevelt had instituted the "fireside chat" tradition, called Congress into a three-month-long special session and passed 15 pieces of major legislation - the beginning of what would come to be known as the New Deal - which created everything from the Tennessee Valley Authority to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
...billion in proposed budget cuts, large tax breaks, the formation of an oversight council to combat government corruption and a dramatic assassination attempt. When John Hinckley Jr. shot Reagan on March 30, 1981, the President's approval rating jumped as high as 68%, but by the 100-day mark, it had settled back down to about 51%. (Jimmy Carter had clocked in at 64% four years earlier...
...presidential progress report serves as a general gauge for the direction of the country, most administrations don't achieve (or suffer) their greatest milestones until later. The 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Lewinsky scandal, Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb - they all fell outside the 100-day mark. Kennedy's deft handling of the Cuban missile crisis outweighed a number of disasters (Bay of Pigs) and minor setbacks (Russia's first-man-in-space triumph) that marked his first 100 days. And while Nixon's presidency started off smoothly, he rejected the 100-days judgment, telling the New York...
...Mark Halperin's report card for the Obama Administration...