Word: priore
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...candidate to be pulled from his political base once he has been elected and become responsible to the country - and not merely to those who fought hardest to get him into the White House. But he is doing so at a time when his party's anger about the prior Administration is at a fever pitch. Even as Obama is ordering 21,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, spending more money there than in Iraq, and approving the firing of the current U.S. commander, liberal Democrats are talking of giving him only a year to show progress. They fear...
...walk everywhere," says Shih Chen-ming, a school superintendant who lost 44 pounds (20 kgs) in six months. "I'm happier, more relaxed, and enjoy the extra time to think." And since most parents stopped giving their kids a ride, motorcycle traffic has been reduced to a fourth its prior rate...
...incident of the midnight swimmer came just weeks before Suu Kyi's latest round of house arrest was set to expire. But, even prior to the charges stemming from Yettaw's visit, another of her laywers said that her latest appeal for freedom had been denied by the junta. Some international observers had hoped that the military regime would soften its grip on Suu Kyi as the country prepares for elections next year. The army government calls the polls the final step in its formation of a "discipline-flourishing democracy." But scores of NLD members languish in jail, and intimidation...
...American companies are facing enormous costs for healthcare - roughly $9,552 per employee in 2009, according to a recent survey by Towers Perrin. That's up 6% over 2008 outlays and will be the fifth consecutive year of single digit percentage increases (prior to that there were five consecutive years of double-digit percentage increases.) (See the five truths about health care in America...
...Odess ’12, a member of the JV baseball team. “Our captain told us that no one had contacted us.” Nicholas P. Manzo ’10, a three-year veteran of the JV basketball team, said that he received no prior notification that his team had been eliminated. “It wasn’t expected but it wasn’t surprising,” Manzo said. “There was no e-mail or anything and we didn’t know beforehand...I don?...