Word: snow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When George W. Bush shook up his White House staff a few weeks ago, the smart money in town took a decidedly blase attitude about it. Wake me, said a longtime Republican player, when they dump [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld and [Treasury Secretary John] Snow. Until then, he added, it's not a policy change of much significance...
...That take still looks smart. But if, as many expect, Snow is the first to go, and soon, it's worth spending a few moments to consider why this White House has such a hard time finding the kind of Treasury secretaries it, and the country, really needs...
...Next came Snow, the former CSX Corp. executive. His tenure has been in some ways just as anticlimactic as O'Neill's, while perhaps inspiring even less confidence. He had a tendency early on to say things that spooked the markets, leading some on Wall Street and on K Street to wonder whether he understood them. When the economy flagged a bit, Snow was a less than inspiring presence on TV. And by the time the first term ended, White House officials were leaking widely that he too would soon be going - so widely that Bush decided...
...film covers three seasons, three locations, three climates: summer heat, autumn rain, winter snow. All photographed gloriously. In the final section, Isa now goes searching for Bahar - perhaps because he loves her, perhaps to convince himself that he could still have her if he wanted...
...White House response came swiftly. Spokesman Tony Snow insisted that all prisoners in U.S. custody are treated "fully within the boundaries of American law." The State Department, which had prepared a 184-page defense of U.S. detention practices in advance of the panel's ruling, denied abuse at Gitmo or elsewhere and argued that the U.N. had overstepped its mandate by calling for the camp's closure...