Word: socialism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...read it and said, "This is preposterous. I love my children! How dare you, sir?" The problem with the type that says, "I instantly bonded with my child. I love my child - how could you suggest that a father feel any differently from the beginning?," is that there is social pressure to say just that, so it's a little hard to know if they actually felt it or whether they are just interested in the self-righteousness of feeling it. More interesting are the many who come up to me and say, "Don't tell anybody this...
...That ultimately left the job of turning around the two troubled giants to Lockhart, who was formerly the chief operating officer of the Social Security Administration. He says he meets with senior executives of both companies once a week; his staff interacts with Fannie and Freddie every day. Lockhart believes that the government has done a better job of running Fannie and Freddie than the bottom lines of the two companies suggest. Most of the losses suffered by the mortgage giants, he notes, resulted from mortgages that Fannie and Freddie backed before they were taken over. Furthermore, part...
...application can contact you even if it's not running, meaning you don't need to be using, say, an instant-message app to be alerted that you received a message. This fix, which lets apps alert users via text messages, also means that all those cool-sounding social-network apps that let you know when a pal is nearby will finally work. In geekspeak, this alert system is known as "push notification," and it's something software developers have long wanted. The ways this feature will be used are endless, and useful...
...news blindsided official Washington: Senator John Ensign, a well-known social conservative and family-values advocate, admitted on June 16 to an eight-month extramarital affair with a married campaign aide. The Nevada Republican's sober confession, read before a pack of reporters in Las Vegas, doubtlessly dashed the hopes of many in the party who considered Ensign an emerging national leader. The 51-year-old even fanned the flames of presidential speculation earlier this month with a trip to the key presidential-primary state of Iowa. Beyond embarrassing the second-term Senator, the revelation opened him to charges...
...believed to hold absolute power, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Everyone expected voting irregularities, she said, but not "this degree of blatant, in-your-face fraud." That Khamenei almost instantly certified the victory of his candidate, incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dashed a central assumption about his regime: that its survival and social stability are intertwined with the legitimacy of Iran's democratic institutions. "He was willing to jettison the democratic institutions and effectively cede whatever remaining legitimacy there was in a popular vote in favor of maintaining total control," Maloney said...