Word: papered
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...know as soon as I start to talk about fencing the average reader will put down the paper saying, “fencing’s not a real sport” or “why would I care about fencing...
...drift away from democracy. In a December 8th editorial provocatively entitled “Authoritarians in the Andes,” The New York Times celebrated Venezuelans’ rejection of Chavez’s “power grab” ; a few days earlier, our very own paper relayed economist Ricardo Hausman’s call for continued “vigilance” against Chavez’s plan to “creat[e] a totalitarian state.” Regardless of their prominence, we must not let ourselves be distracted by the intransigent partisanship...
...extends to nearly all the candidates as well. A Republican governor put it this way: "If you took any one of these guys and held them up against the light and said, 'Could this guy be President?' you'd say, 'I don't think so.'" While they are, on paper, a distinguished group - a living hero and sitting U.S. Senator, a former Senator and popular actor, two former Governors and a prosecutor turned mayor of the nation's most populous city - each has handicaps that are limiting...
Near the end of the event, Teng encouraged audience members to take out the small sheets of paper that had been placed under their chairs and write a message. She then asked them to light it on fire in a bowl of water with a candle sticking...
...gained national fame when he led the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. As expected, Romney transformed a $379 million deficit into a $56 million surplus. He also set an example. Foregoing a salary, Romney cut the fancy meals and expensive trips. He infamously served his executives pizza on paper plates—and charged them a dollar a slice. Pledging to strip government officials convicted of felonies of their pensions and to prohibit senior staff members’ relatives from lobbying the executive branch, a President Romney could polish the GOP’s tarnished ethics...