Word: propell
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...Denmark Ex-PM Poul Nyrup Rasmussen's Social Democrats romped, taking almost one-third of the vote - double their 1999 result The ruling Liberals paid for backing the Iraq war. Euro-skeptics did badly, bucking the anti-E.U. trend France Discontent with President Jacques Chirac's government helped propel the opposition Socialists to victory PM Jean-Pierre Raffarin's reform program could be a casualty of the ruling conservatives' loss Germany The Christian Democrats' big win bodes well for three state elections in September The ruling Social Democrats' worst-ever loss in a national vote ratchets up the pressure...
...Then he was gone - away from Atlantic, off to ABC Paramount, for the life of an interpretive rather than creative artist. Ray Charles sings country? Well, why not? He had a smash with ?I Can?t Stop Loving You? - the kind of success that can propel an artist (or at least allow him to cruise) toward a career as a non-hit-producing musical treasure. For the next four decades, he toured, guested on TV shows, earned honors galore, including a Presidential Medal and a charter membership in the Rock ?n Roll Hall of Fame. It was coasting, sure...
These qualities, Peljto hopes, will propel her to success in European professional basketball—she recently signed with Cavigal Nice, a club based in Nice, France—and perhaps ultimately to the WNBA...
Alter’s early stints with tabloid journalism helped propel him into the highest echelons of political journalism—covering the president and his sex scandals...
Working in their individual fields--nutrition, psychology, pediatrics--each of these scientists has concluded that it is simply too difficult for Americans to stand up to the many forces that propel them to eat too much and move too little. For decades, they say, the country has seen obesity as a personal problem to be solved by each overweight individual waging a lonely war to trim pounds on the diet du jour. While it's true that we are each responsible for what we put in our own mouth, they note that the personal-responsibility approach has been...