Word: shoulders
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...would like to echo Elliott's sentiments by adding the developments in Northern Ireland to the list of Blair's achievements. The peace process needed a British leader who could push for reform without looking over his shoulder to see how many seats made up his minority government. Blair may be seen as an "unpopular failure" in his country for his participation in the war in Iraq, but I want to thank him for putting Northern Ireland at the top of his agenda. I have always felt that he didn't do so to earn political capital but that...
...embedded in those communities and those families. So why wouldn't we first trust those folks? We believe you create the capacity at the local level to do the right thing in the first place, and then you don't need the state or federal government looking over your shoulder...
...would like to echo Elliott's sentiments by adding the developments in Northern Ireland to the list of Blair's achievements. The peace process needed a British leader who could push for reform without looking over his shoulder to see how many seats made up his minority government. Blair may be seen as an "unpopular failure" in his country for his participation in the war in Iraq, but I want to thank him for putting Northern Ireland at the top of his agenda. I have always felt that he didn't do so to earn political capital but that...
...scout in the 1st Infantry Division of Fort Riley, Kans., Genevie had to fight to get into the Army. Military doctors told him he couldn't enlist with his history of asthma and shoulder problems. But Genevie knew he could handle the training. He videotaped himself doing rigorous 20-minute workouts to show that he wouldn't slow down his unit. He even drafted a letter to President Bush asking him to intervene. Genevie never sent it because the Army eventually let him in. His mother Patricia found the letter among his things a few days after he died...
...hour 1930 trip from Newark, N.J., to Los Angeles, setting the junior transcontinental speed record, and made a record round trip to Havana in 13 hours. A chief pilot for TWA, where he worked from 1937 to 1974, Buck wrote such acclaimed books as North Star Over My Shoulder, a must- read for new pilots...