Word: roughness
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...have your life struggles affected the development of your on-air personality? There are a lot of rough edges on me that I sure would like to sand down. I'm trying to work on it every day. I hope I'm a better person than I was five or 10 years ago. I hope I'm a better person than I was last week. But I guess my personal story has made me much more of a libertarian. I don't think the answers are going to come from Washington; I don't think they're going to come...
...European Union, which has routinely argued for the most stringent carbon reductions; and the big developing nations, like India and China, which say climate change is the fault of rich nations and have been generally reluctant to take on any carbon-cutting obligations - long enough to lay down a rough outline of how negotiations, including the talks at Poznan, should proceed. The end goal is an actual agreement at the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, which has been cast as a de facto deadline for a new, hopefully more globally comprehensive Kyoto Protocol. (See the Top 10 green ideas...
...though, the decision will be Paterson's. Before becoming governor, he was a powerful state senator; used to the rough-and-tumble world of Albany politicking, he's unlikely to be bullied by the Kennedy family or anyone else. Says Sheinkopf: "He's not a guy who responds to that kind of pressure. He is extraordinarily smart and is political by birth. He will not cave...
...made up of two individuals with differing backgrounds and personalities—will succeed at the polls.‘POLITICAL VIEWS: APATHETIC’The contrast between James and Wong is most apparent in the discussion of their life stories and political experiences.James speaks unabashedly about his rough background growing up in the South with his sister and mother, who, disabled from a back injury, provided an annual income of about $10,000.“It’s an atmosphere that either encourages you to succeed or to get out of the way. The people who live...
...doses of the vaccine - half the U.S. supply - when regulators discovered that it had been tainted with bacteria. Americans were urged to reserve shots for the ill or elderly, but so many people opted out of shots that the country actually ended up with a surplus. "That was a rough year," says Bridges...