Word: moment
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hear a loud snap at this moment, it's the audience's credulity, as Swing Vote falls from agreeable fable into wan satire. Why 10 days? To show that the electoral process is a shameless sham in which politicians pretzel their principles to get elected. The two candidates come courting Bud. Drawing their own inferences from his cryptic remarks, the Republican (Kelsey Grammer) suddenly plumps for gay marriage, while the Democrat (Dennis Hopper) turns pro-life. The movie says these are decent men forced to reverse field by their Machiavellian advisers (Stanley Tucci as, essentially, Karl Rove; Nathan Lane...
...helping the world's poorest. Even the most troglodytic corporation is feeling pressure to be green (and to pretend, at least, to be excited about it). The parade of corporate scandals continues, and capitalism's need for a bit of image repair continues alongside. It's a perfect moment for the biggest corporate titan of all time to turn his attention to problems that software can't solve...
...trigger on the idea back on Super Tuesday. Visiting the U.S. that first week of February, she says she experienced up close the enthusiasm generated by the first viable African-American candidate for the White House. "It's a sign," she recalls thinking to herself. "It's the moment...
...past not only for its eye for fashion trends, but for features on terrorism, drug abuse and plastic surgery. Sozzani says she has always aspired to reach beyond Italy, and was quick to react when her colleagues in the U.S. and U.K. were missing this black fashion moment. "I've always wanted to bring the Italian sensibility to the world," she said. "By now, the planet is small...
...began studying activity levels as a way to try to figure out why, given all we know about the overwhelming health benefits of physical activity, so many people still choose not to exercise. A lecture at Johns Hopkins University about genetics and lung disease served as Lightfoot's eureka moment, and he became interested in studying genes as our prime mover. For the new study, Lightfoot and his team bred two strains of mice - active and inactive. Researchers then crossbred two generations of the active and inactive mice, ending up with a study group of 310 genetically mixed offspring...