Word: ripeness
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...network has done surprisingly well in midsize cities, usually relegated to the minor league of campaign finance. Just as the NFL discovered it could profitably run football teams in smaller markets, Oliver and his colleagues realized that these towns were ripe with donors who would pay big money even for presidential surrogates. Chattanooga mayor Bob Corker was concerned last month about the Laura Bush fund raiser he was host to, as luncheons sometimes don't do well. No matter. The event hauled in $500,000, double Chattanooga's previous political fund-raising best. "I've never been involved in anything...
...realm of personal liberty which the government may not enter." To opponents, it meant that any law based mainly on moral norms was now vulnerable; to supporters, it meant that the court had recognized the legitimacy of homosexual relations, so any law that discriminates against gays could be ripe for reversal. And with that, the latest battle over liberty, morality and privacy begins...
After soliciting input from countless faculty members at HDS and across the University, Summers concluded that the time was ripe to reevaluate the mission and focus of a school that has changed dramatically since its last curricular review over 20 years...
...come back up to the plate with Boston’s best hitter, $20 million-a-year Manny Ramirez. Topjian declares that the time is ripe for Ramirez, who was intentionally walked in the first and stroked two singles through the middle innings, to launch one out of the yard. After taking a few pitches, Ramirez clubs a no-doubt-about-it shot over the Green Monster in left, pausing to admire his handiwork before he starts to run the bases...
...Washington hawks, however, have little patience for an Iranian reform process that has produced few palpable achievements, and may already have hit a wall. They believe mounting popular anger makes Iran ripe for revolution, and a concerted U.S. push for the overthrow of the mullahs could ignite an uprising. The pro-dialogue camp says that vision is farfetched and dangerous, and that concerns over al-Qaeda and nuclear weapons must be addressed in the course of engagement with Tehran that rewards progress towards reform and punishes bad behavior...