Word: pivoters
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...thunder you hear on these March nights is the better part of 10 million basketballs being dribbled, slapped, dunked, palmed and bounced in every oversteamed gym and field house and on every chilled and ragged patch of asphalt and on every mud-caked farmyard where a kid can pivot and hook and dream...
...BAKER's return to the president's side has been described to key Republicans as the "cold war pivot." Having teamed up with Bush to kiss the communist threat goodbye, the honchos were told, Baker will now act as a sort of deputy President, managing the campaign, then leading a sweeping domestic agenda during a second Bush term. But the truth is that Baker is only making an emergency house call as Mr. Fix-It. If Bush wins re-election, Baker has told friends that he will help tool up a domestic strategy and hire the right folks...
...AXIOM OF POLITICS THAT running for the White House involves a zig and then a zag: during the primaries, candidates of both parties normally concentrate on wooing the liberal or conservative wings of their parties; once nominated, they pivot toward the broad middle of the American electorate, where the White House is lost...
...busy personally turning "the world around" during his first term to devote himself to domestic problems. In his second term, he promises to do better. As he put it last week in Knoxville, "We stand today at what I think most people would agree is a pivot point in history, at the end of one era and the beginning of another...
Annelies, often quiet amidst this turmoil, remains the pivot of the work, a living symbol of Indonesia. She's an enigmatic blend of Native and European influences, admired by all and destroyed by all, confused and enfeebled...