Word: shoo
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...presidency of South Africa. Thanks to their work, the election scheduled for April 27 will embrace all the nation's citizens, including the previously disenfranchised blacks who, numbering 28 million, make up 75% of the population. Given the stunning majority of potential black voters, Mandela is regarded as a shoo-in. Not by De Klerk, who seems determined to prove that he has not negotiated himself out of his job. But it is not just casting eyes at the same prize that has made Mandela and De Klerk so uncomfortable together, so prone to display visceral anger toward each other...
...pull out its forces. Last week, the Hariri family formally announced that Saad, 35, one of Hariri's four sons from two marriages, would take up his late father's political role. Saad, who until now has run his father's business empire in Saudi Arabia, seems a virtual shoo-in for Prime Minister if he chooses to run. Many hope that Saad can finish the job of rebuilding and reuniting Lebanon his father began. "He is very capable and very serious," says Marwan Hamade, a leading opposition MP. "He has the knowledge and the guts. From where...
...flashed a warm smile. He wasn't wearing any of his Cardinal scarlet robes, just a simple black suit and clerical collar, but I recognized him right away by his reddish complexion and burly figure - a bespectacled version of American character actor Brian Denehey. Though an aide tried to shoo me away, I was able to ask Scola how the week was going so far. "Excellent!" he said with what seemed like authentic exuberance. "We are in God's hands." And he was gone with the late afternoon breeze. In the 20th century, the Holy Spirit swept in three Popes...
Summers wasn’t initially a shoo-in. He first had to beat out dozens of the country’s academic and political elite, including a professor rumored to have a shot at the Supreme Court and a former U.S. President...
...Once a shoo-in for the NCAA tournament with an outside chance at a top seed, the Crimson must now close out the remainder of its slate nearly error-free in order to solidify its positioning for an at-large bid in the event that it falls short in the ECAC tournament and fails to capture the league’s autobid...