Word: squirm
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...anything drastic. But popularity is only a temporary shield. The voters who were so impressed by Koizumi's campaign candor might well feel differently if they have to endure many more weeks like the last one. And once his ratings fall?below 40% would start to make him squirm, according to analyst Toshikawa?it will be open season on Koizumi...
...sometimes seem defensive when he feels he's not receiving the proper deference?he has taken to it with the easy grace of a natural. If Al Gore is a politician who burns too hot, whose nervousness and eagerness make those viewing him, on TV or in person, squirm with discomfort, then Thaksin is blessed with cool. It's almost a pleasure to watch...
...There is nothing quite as unacceptable today as racism, and if individuals wriggle and squirm when confronting their own racist demons, today's nation-states are even more averse - not least because an honest reckoning with the past carries some uncomfortable political and legal implications in the present...
Later that day I got a qualified thank-you e-mail from student Adam Riff, who invited me to hang out with a dozen friends in his parents' living room, where they tried to make me feel better. "We all enjoyed watching the principal squirm and turn red in the face," Adam offered. I was also told I was in good company because Star Trek Voyager's LeVar Burton spoke last year...
Politicians love to say "I told you so," particularly if it makes a political enemy squirm. That's why the economic downturn now has Democrats tuning up their "I-told-you-so" chorus. As the economy worsens, the federal government collects less in taxes. The White House is already predicting that revenues will be down by $56 billion for the 2001 fiscal year. And economists who testified recently before the Senate Budget Committee predicted that revenues would shrink another $50-70 billion...