Word: pivots
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...produced one troubling sex scandal, a couple of sticky-finger financial scams and a claim by a leading democrat that her house was broken into and possibly bugged by pro-Beijing forces. Both sides recognize that Hong Kong's destiny as a privileged bastion of freedom within China could pivot on the polls. "The future political structure," says Audrey Eu, a popular democrat who once ran the local bar association, "is going to be determined by this legislature...
...Kerry's longest-standing advisers had a say in campaign strategy--something Kerry wanted as well. His Washington pollster Mark Mellman was the one who first spotted the opportunity for Kerry to revive his dying primary campaign by taking out a $6.4 million personal loan and making a counterintuitive pivot from New Hampshire to Iowa. But before Kerry signed off on the high-risk gambit, the candidate dispatched his old Boston hand Kiley to Iowa to confirm Mellman's numbers...
...voting history was spotty (his excuse: he was often too busy with legal cases to vote), Edwards insists he had long been intrigued by the idea of public service. In fact, Wade had told friends his father was considering a run. Edwards' public explanation for his mid-life pivot is that it was merely an extension of his lifelong mission as the Equalizer. "If you can't help enough people being a lawyer, consider being a lawmaker" is how he thought of the plan, according to his 2003 autobiography, Four Trials...
Bernakevitch, a junior who played wing during his first two seasons, was forced to move to the pivot this year after the graduation of Crimson middlemen Dominic Moore, Brett Nowak and Aaron...
Scott Mifsud, UVM’s pesky second-line pivot, scored half a minute later to make...