Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...players agreed with Wade, saying that his departure will not impact next season’s recruiting class.“We have a good class coming in, and I don’t think his leaving will affect anybody,” junior guard Jeremy Lin said, a sentiment echoed by captain Andrew Pusar.It is unclear who will assume Wade’s responsibilities and whether that person will come from inside or outside the program.“I know [Amaker] has got a wide list of names,” Wade said of potential candidates...
...Cambridge roots. “Lifelong service to this city doesn’t mean a damn thing because they’ll screw you,” said Charles L. Stead, Sr., a former principal in the district. “Understand that is the sentiment that is going to be felt by most of the blacks in this city.” Fantini, who has served on the committee for 12 terms, said he thought Turk deserved to be superintendent. “The staff and the teachers in the school system will be totally demoralized...
...weapon for people worried that the economic crisis will lead to more crime. "Protection of the family, protection of the home, is utmost on people's minds," says Keffer. Many big cities have indeed seen crime tick higher during the downturn. But in the wrong psyche, this sentiment can carry deadly consequences. For example, the mother of the Pittsburgh man who shot and killed the police officers said her son had been stockpiling guns and ammunition "because he believed that as a result of the economic collapse, the police were no longer able to protect society...
Sherry Rehman, a prominent member of Zardari's ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and a former minister, echoes the sentiment but allows that Islamabad should step up in its own efforts to battle the militants. "What is not helpful is saying that it is someone else's war," she says. "Yes, it may have arisen from interventions in the past such as in the Afghan jihad, but this is a very clear [and] present challenge. Whether it is homegrown or not, it is now in Pakistan, and solutions can only come up at a national level. International intervention...
...something-for-everyone approach appears to have worked. While anti-American sentiment among Turks rose to historic highs under President George W. Bush, polls show Obama with an approval rating in Turkey above 50%. Even the typically antagonistic Turkish press - left, right, secularist and Islamist - were united in their praise on Tuesday. "He won our hearts," read the banner headline on the mainstream daily Vatan. More important, all referred to Obama's message urging democratic progress. "We must all change," said the top-selling Hurriyet...