Word: pleasants
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...after the mayor of Mount Pleasant, the Iowa town where Vilsack lived, was shot and killed, the mayor's father asked him to run for the office. He did in 1987, won and later went on to serve in the Iowa State Senate beginning in 1992. In 1998 he became the first Democratic governor in Iowa in 32 years, winning after being behind by some 20 points in the polls. He served a total of two terms...
...Shrek the Musical doesn't really do the trick. It's pleasant enough but lacks the theatrical polish and imaginative leaps of the best Disney shows. And I think the letdown may have been inevitable...
...months now, the only silver lining for many amid the gathering economic gloom has been the pleasant sensation of filling their cars with ever cheaper gasoline. But that relief at the gas pump has slashed the revenues of the oil-producing countries, and on Wednesday they pushed back when the 11 oil ministers of the Opec cartel agreed to cut their combined output by about 2.2 million barrels a day starting January 1. The biggest production cut in Opec's 48-year history is an emergency measure aimed at reversing the precipitous slide in world oil prices, which the cartel...
...said. “But I think we both realized that it was an enormous opportunity, and I just wasn’t in a position to shut it down.” And, for the time being, the change in climate may even be a pleasant novelty. “It’s colder here, but my kids are excited to see snow,” Lessig said. “They’ve never seen snow.” —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...nothing to lose (it's behind) and partly because, historically, Democrats screw up their ballots more often than Republicans. They're the shaky-handed elderly, the movement-limited disabled, the instruction-confused immigrants, the first-time-voting minorities. But despite this tension, the two law teams have been pleasant toward each other. Franken lead attorney Marc Elias, who was head counsel for the John Kerry campaign, says, "It's been cordial. I've met Coleman's lawyer, Mr. Knaak, three times. He seems like a nice fellow." In fact, each side independently has taken back hundreds of ballot challenges...