Word: steps
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...command to control thousands of men at arms. "I began as an H - the code they use for Hawk," he says. "After a time, I became a Central. I gave information to all the local H's in the community." He also reveals how his "family" stays one step ahead of the authorities by paying a vast network of informants, from local journalists to high-ranking federal agents. (See pictures of fighting crime in Mexico City...
Vilsack set a self-imposed term-limit and planned to step down after four years in the post...
...Roger Ebert, say that its emphasis on the white man's burden of nobility betrayed a willful ignoring of Tom Robinson, the real person in peril. Atticus loses face; Tom loses his life, but his case is seen not as his or his race's tragedy but as one step on his lawyer's Calvary. Then the plot shifts to the Finches' eccentric neighbor Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his first movie role), and Mockingbird forgets about the black man, unfairly convicted by a racist society, to concentrate on the white man who is brought into civilized society...
...innocent," he proclaimed. "I am not going to quit a job the people hired me to do." simply because nearly every politician in the state and many nationwide, up through the President-elect, have called for him to step aside. He called the charges against him, "false accusations," and declared those seeking to remove him from office were "a political lynch mob." (See the Top 10 Scandals...
...take questions, but minutes later two of his attorneys came out to take some from reporters. One of them, Sam Adam, Jr., reiterated the governor's intention to remain in office, but allowed that Blagojevich could step aside if the pressures of defending himself against U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's charges became too heavy for him to complete his work. "If the people of Illinois suffer, he will step aside," said Adam...