Word: obvious
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...Because I think those details would be useful, and not just for the intellectual edification of policy wonks. Details could also help tamp down what I suspect is a rising (though not yet obvious) anger in the U.S. among those who (as a President you worked for in the '90s once put it) "work hard and play by the rules." Nowadays, I suspect that a lot of us, who try to do exactly that, believe we're being played for suckers. We work hard, play by the rules - and get stuck with the bill. And as this recession deepens...
...commended for wanting to cut the Pentagon budget, he should do more than just cut. He should cut intelligently, promoting innovative programs that are key to modern peacekeeping and state-building and scrapping those that are proven failed or outdated. A program such as missile defense, both an obvious error and a relic of the Cold War, should be first on the chopping block...
...That's one more reason today's runoff is a big deal. A Chambliss victory would not send much of a message to the nation; it would just confirm the obvious fact that Georgia is more conservative than the nation. But it could reinforce the dangerous message that recent electoral results have been sending to Republicans. GOP moderates like Connecticut Congressman Christopher Shays and GOP pragmatists like North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory keep losing, while most Republican survivors have been conservatives from conservative districts and conservative states. So the party keeps looking more like Chambliss and moving further...
...Bulldogs really find a coach to take them beyond where Siedlecki had already led? Defensive coordinator Rick Flanders seems like the obvious choice, having led the nation's top scoring defense this season and worked in the Ivy League for the last 16 years. But if he faces the same unrealistic expectations that Siedlecki did, it won't be a particularly long tenure...
...extent of concentration on résumés becomes most transparent in the field of extracurricular activities. The Harvard student with a coherent five-year plan to get into a top law school, featuring specific courses and activities, is far from a rarity. The obvious danger within this approach, which lies in using our free time as a mere means to a distant end, is to run the risk of forgetting what truly interested us in the first place...