Word: pressingly
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...have forged ahead, however, talked to restaurateurs in what must be the hundreds, and now press closer (hopefully, someday, maybe) to securing a job for the now too-near future, my confidence in my own strange road is budding. It is odd, but exciting. A new twist. Refreshing. Kind of like a ham and cheese wrap-roll-up-sandwich on your last day in Barcelona...
Seven of the 72 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) yesterday are Harvard professors, according to an NAS press release. The Academy, which the release describes as “a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare” currently numbers 2,041 active members. Signed into existence by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the group is charged with acting as an advisor to the federal government on issues involving science and technology. Election to the NAS is typically regarded...
...Bush Administration met privately with Senate and House negotiators Tuesday to hash out the new $286 billion Farm Bill, a final draft of which lawmakers hope to have by Friday, when the extended 2002 farm law expires. Though President Bush called the new bill "bloated" at a press conference on Tuesday, he stopped short of threatening to veto it, as he had an earlier version of the bill before a tax increase was included in the legislation. At least one senator's aide took the absence of a new veto threat as a hopeful sign...
...recent negative tactics of his campaign. "Over the past month or so, we've been getting whacked ... and sometimes we've been hitting back in ways that we're really not about." It was as if Obama were putting his personal gyroscope in order for the main act, the press conference in which he said he was "appalled" and "outraged" by his former pastor's views. He did this with typical restraint-his demeanor, as always, precisely presidential-but also with the sad and belated realization that the Wright controversy was not merely a "distraction." It was this year...
...wonder how Moyers reacted when he saw the Reverend's smug, disdainful, outrageous-Obama's word-performance a few days later at the National Press Club. Wright refused to back away from his contention that AIDS was a government conspiracy, said that attacking him was an attack on the black church, refused to step away from Louis Farrakhan and again said of Sept. 11, "You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you." Twenty years ago, the response of too many Moyers-era liberals would have been to try to understand Wright...