Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...like Klein who fancy themselves to be intellectuals find to discount President Bush? He is obviously intelligent, thoughtful, courageous, very determined and a man of action. Bush confounds leftists because he is not a handwringer. The remarkable thing is that he can keep his equilibrium in the face of nonstop criticism from his opponents. Is it because the media are afraid that he really might be great - this straightforward, plainspoken man from Texas? Carroll Hoke Wichita, Kansas, U.S. Klein analyzed Bush's reliance on his gut reactions more than on tortured reasoning. I wonder how much that is true...
...system to fly critically ill people in the air; we had to create it on the ground," says Colonel John Holcomb, one of only two Army surgeons left in Somalia that day, which was memorialized in the film Black Hawk Down. They performed 34 surgeries in a nonstop 36-hour stint. Haunted by the event, Holcomb and others began pushing for change. Army and Air Force commanders together argued that the military needed a joint medical strategy...
...Numbers 67 hr. 2 min. 38 sec. Time it took financier turned adventurer Steve Fossett to become the first man to fly nonstop around the world without refueling 1.2 tons Approximate amount of fuel that unaccountably disappeared after takeoff...
...agenda—a hands-off, status quo administration raising money with one hand and throwing it at professors with the other—is actually best served by an impotent Larry Summers. After all, a new president wouldn’t labor against the endless mea culpas and nonstop pandering that the faculty’s warriors want Larry to learn...
...Presumably these expository time-outs also give the actors a chance to catch their breath between nearly nonstop action sequences. Ma, who worked with Jackie Chan on some of the superstar's best films, can shoot fight scenes that dodge and weave between ridiculous and dangerous. The 42-year-old Leung is no Jackie Chan (alas, neither is Jackie Chan these days), but he moves with a swashbuckling rhythm. Shu bats her eyes ferociously. Ma's easygoing balance gets a bit lost by the big finale. We won't say what happens, but it includes the line...