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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...into our country is that there is lack of governance and there are Somalis who work tirelessly for Somalia to be stuck in chaos forever who welcome these people. Somalis have to understand the consequences that these foreigners have. Everyone can contribute to peace and development. But it is obvious that our friends have been misled by outsiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somali President Sheik Sharif Ahmed | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

...Jazeera accused Washington of "having planted new seeds to increase hatred for and revenge against America". The Marriott attack is believed to have been orchestrated by Usama al-Kini, a senior al-Qaeda operative who was killed in a drone attack on Jan 1. There is also obvious potential for the two allied militant groups to have collaborated in the attack on the only luxury hotel in al-Qaeda's birthplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peshawar: More and More, A City Under Siege | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

...been a four-time winner. There could have been 100 people who sent in something along the same lines. There was one time when I turned in what ended up being the winning caption, but perhaps 1,000 people sent it in; I think it was a pretty obvious fit for the cartoon. When more than one person submits the winning caption, they just choose a winner at random. That's just the luck of the draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win the New Yorker Caption Contest | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

What are the top two or three tips you have for caption writers? Be brief. Try to incorporate everything that's going on in the cartoon. Sometimes somebody will submit a caption that addresses one thing going on in the cartoon, but not something else that's pretty obvious. I think the more successful captions address everything that's going on. I'll depart from Patrick House here. He said not to try to be too funny. I think you should try to be as funny as you can. He's right that sometimes you see a winning caption that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win the New Yorker Caption Contest | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

Politics aside, the foreseeable future looks pretty bright for those in front of the SUP wave. Says Chambers, "When I started the company, it was pretty obvious that it had the potential to be bigger than windsurfing. Then I thought, 'This is going to be as big as surfing.' And now I think it's going to be bigger than windsurfing, kitesurfing, surfing - everything put together - because it can be done anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's SUP? A Surf Sport That Needs No Ocean | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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