Word: momentous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...highest office, Flores—bundled in the arms of running-mate Kia J. McLeod ’10 and flanked by friends and campaign staffers—looked on in a state of shocked surprise. Flores stood quietly amidst a crowd of her supporters, absorbing a moment made all the more unlikely by the suspension of her campaign late Sunday night, while all around her chants of “yes we did” erupted. Jolted out of her reverie by McLeod’s pumping fist, a smile crept across Flores’ face...
...where the only innovation is that the girl's mother is never mentioned.) And will a local stripper, well played by Tomei, respond to his plaintive love and drive down to see what may be Randy's last fight? (Can't have a fight movie without a "Yo, Adrian!" moment...
Harvard Square businesses have been doing well as a whole, but also said that it is important for HSBA to support the locally owned shops, which—despite their prevalence—do not occupy as much square footage in the Square as the national chains. At the moment, 98 percent of the business locations in the Square are occupied. Seventy-eight percent of the nearly 390 business locations in the square are locally owned, 6 percent are regional stores such as JP Licks, and 16 percent are national chains. “It is so important...
...when I asked Kennedy last January about her surprising decision to publicly endorse Barack Obama after decades of guarding her private life, her answer hinted that President John F. Kennedy's daughter might be open to even bigger things ahead. "I really felt like it was a crucial moment, and if I had something that I believed in, then I really owed it to myself to express that," she told me. "I recently turned 50, so I figured, I'd better get going - what am I waiting for?" (See TIME's J.F.K. covers...
...backlash. In addition, extending the fight against the Islamists to the pirates may make friends of two of the most dangerous groups in Somalia, who until now have been enemies. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates underlined those concerns in Bahrain. "With the level of information we have at the moment, we're not in a position to do that kind of land-based operation," he said, adding any such intervention would need to "minimize collateral damage...