Word: shoo
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...stunning reversal of fortune. British Foreign Minister David Miliband is being trumpeted as the frontrunner for the position - mainly because the post is expected to go to a candidate from the center-left and Miliband is talented, articulate and well liked in European circles. However, he's not a shoo-in for the job - other contenders are said to include former Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, former French Justice Minister Elisabeth Guigou and Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt...
...Despondent Republican staffers privately concede that Sotomayor's long record on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals; her background as a prosecutor, corporate lawyer and judge; and the political danger of attacking a Hispanic nominee make President Barack Obama's first pick for the court all but a shoo-in when confirmation hearings begin on July 13. But members of the Supreme Court bar and clerks who have worked there say the opinion in the Ricci case (named for one of the New Haven firefighters who brought the lawsuit) offers an advance look at Sotomayor's future relations with conservative...
...Croatia, which should be a shoo-in for membership, is stalled in the accession process because of a border dispute with its neighbor, Slovenia. Montenegro, another flourishing Balkan state, is currently trying to apply for EU membership, but the current global economic state has made the EU leadership cautious about further expansion. Macedonia’s bid, although weaker than Croatia’s or Montenegro’s, cannot move forward because Greece argues that Macedonia’s name suggests an aspiration to the Greek province of the same name...
...been a shoo-in for the job ever since? At the start, they contacted me, and for the next, oh, I'd say three or four Inaugurals, somebody [from the new Administration] always called me. They never asked me if I'm a Republican or a Democrat or an independent. They never asked who I voted for, nothing like that. It was always just, "Hey, are you the guy who did it last time?" Because we have a new group of people every four years and 90% of them have never put on a parade before, much less an Inaugural...
...years of post-apartheid South Africa have inured us to many things [Last Stand, Nov. 10], not least of which is the uncontrollable level of crime. If Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens is looking for a home, South Africa is just the place for him. And he will be a shoo-in for a Cabinet post. After all, a criminal record (preferably something fraudulent or involving corruption, the national pastime) is common in the top echelons. Recently, the very MPs implicated in defrauding the people of South Africa through an elaborate travel-voucher scam we call Travelgate (about 40 of them...