Word: stale
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will be a massive political and media sideshow. John Simpson Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S. As a European, I couldn't agree more with columnist Klein's position: "There is something fundamentally un-American - and very European - about the Clintons and the Bushes trading the office every eight years, with stale, familiar corps of retainers, supporters and enemies." American democracy demands new faces. Klein also noted that if Hillary runs for President, it would be "a circus, a revisitation of the carnival ugliness that infested public life in the 1990s." I'm afraid that whoever the candidates will be, the campaign...
...UCRC’s proposal would also allow candidates to run much more focused and substantive campaigns than is currently the case. As it is now, candidates often make three sets of vague and stale promises—without knowing exactly which committee they will be elected to, how could they do anything else? Under the proposed reform, student voters would benefit from specific discussions of the issues related to each committee, and, in turn, cast better informed ballots...
...presidency-for its full, constitutional eight years. What's more, I suspect there would be innate and appropriate populist resistance to this slouch toward monarchial democracy. There is something fundamentally un-American-and very European-about the Clintons and the Bushes trading the office every eight years, with stale, familiar corps of retainers, supporters and enemies. Bill Clinton was a good President. Hillary Clinton is a good Senator. But enough already. (And that goes...
...Beddington Zero Energy Development in South London, they're shouting their environmental credentials from the rooftops. Tidy little lawns sprout on top of each house - helping to insulate the buildings - as pastel-colored cowls swivel in the breeze, gently ushering fresh air into homes and offices while funneling stale air out. Solar photovoltaic panels soak up the sun - even on cloudy days - contributing to the development's overall power mix. Most of the community's heat and electricity come from a 130-kW generator fueled by timber clippings and similar waste from landscaping work...
This salvo of stale doughnuts and Big Macs wrapped in anti-materialist satire brings the album to a cringing standstill, especially coming right after the delicately melancholy “Thoughts for the Unknowingly Bored.” “Thoughts” is appealing in its quiet simplicity, though even in the context of a mournful ballad, A + P manages to get bitten by the meta bug again: “The best band’s onstage, and you’ll never see them,” Wilkins sings wistfully...