Word: pass
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...toast to Raymond, and a toast to French-American friendship.” “Great things are at stake when it comes to food,” said Gauthier in an interview after the ceremony. He lauded the chef for helping “pass on the value of French gastronomy and respect for food.” Ost, whose French cuisine bears an Alsatian twist, found out about the honor when a certificate arrived in the mail a few weeks ago, although the actual medal was not included in the package that he received...
...Lastly, the upside for being a naysayer was just too sweet. At any point in time, what will be the measure of success for the stimulus package? The Republicans knew that this legislation was going to pass with or without their support and that, in so far as anyone would receive credit for its perceived success, it would be Democrats. As the party out of power, the Republicans are relegated to arguing that, whatever our economic circumstances will be in the future, the glass is half-empty. Why not drum it into everyone’s head from...
...There is only one hitch. Congress isn't about to pass the Freedom of Choice Act - because no such bill has been introduced in the current Congress...
Thus far, a series of all-nighters by legislators, plus the governor's actions shutting down the state government piece by piece, have not shaken loose the one remaining GOP vote needed to pass the spending plan...
...lets U.S. oil firms have stakes in Venezuelan petro projects. And no one recalls any Venezuelan names on the list of 9/11 hijackers. Whatever the geopolitical calculus of Washington's coddling of Riyadh may be, Latin Americans still see the U.S. as giving Saudi Arabia's repressive monarchy a pass while reviling a democratically elected government in Venezuela. They see the same double standard at work in the U.S.'s maintaining an economic embargo on Cuba but not on China, despite Beijing's human-rights record, if anything, being worse than Havana...