Word: nascent
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...Five years later, they have that, and a lot more, in the Center for American Progress (CAP), the most influential independent organization in Obama's nascent Washington. CAP was the brainchild of former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, who dutifully worked wealthy dinner parties with a simple idea: He would create a new organization, a "think tank on steroids," to help progressive ideas regain power. Tom Daschle, once the top Democrat in the Senate, got on board, calling it an "action tank." Sarah Wartell, who would become Podesta's deputy, had a more homely description: "Not your...
...Barber even stated that he “wanted to create a simple, accessible and almost neutral venue to show stuff—my own and other’s.”While the struggle between art and the structures in place to sell it is far from nascent, it is important to note that tinyvices seems not so much above it as beyond it. Though Barber rightly identifies the advantages of being outside of the established systems, he is not self-important or righteous enough to find them below him.Over the past two years, TV (as tinyvices...
...that in recent years, young adults have been increasingly voting for Democratic candidates, “which has been a bad sign for the other party.” Galston also said he worries that the Obama campaign’s diverse coalition might pose a challenge to his nascent administration. “Even in the eyes of his own coalition some people are afraid that he wouldn’t go far enough while others think he would go too far,” said Galston. He concluded that the president-elect will have to manage potentially inflated...
...miracle of acoustic innovation, showcasing peculiar compositions and idiosyncratic arrangements. That album’s bizarre, esoteric liner notes became one of Fahey’s many trademarks. It was Fahey who, in effect, discovered Kottke, when the latter mailed his demo recordings to Fahey’s nascent label, Takoma Records; to this day, Kottke’s debut remains Takoma’s best-selling record. While Kottke may have been Takoma’s star—his music is the most accessible of any of his contemporaries, and he’s arguably the most technically...
...someone who spent 23 years at ABC and then went to FOX News when it was a nascent operation, you've been a major part of both a mainstream media outlet - perceived by many as having a liberal bias - and then at a cable powerhouse perceived by many to have a conservative bias. Behind the scenes, is there a fundamentally different approach to news gathering...