Word: steps
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...does a nice job of summing up Angela Merkel's rise through the sexist ranks of German politics, it contradicts itself by using such outdated gender stereotypes as diminutive, frail and kittenish to describe the first female Chancellor of Germany. Though subtle, this sort of language is damaging. One step forward, three steps back. And to think, the writer is a woman. Kate Karczewski, CHICAGO...
...hour show, Beck and O'Reilly finally appeared together to banter lightly. Audience members ranged from 30-somethings to retirees. Steve Davio, 55, a scientist from the Rochester area, watches The O'Reilly Factor nearly every night. The current "progressive agenda, [with] each incremental step, takes us further and further from an America of self-reliance, land of the free and the home of the brave," he says. "It makes us the land of the weak and the home of the helpless...
...tells TIME that Yar'Adua's continued insistence on ruling from his sickbed in Saudi Arabia was "insulting to the people. We are being taken for a ride and it must stop." Those who continue to support the President are merely those with something to lose should he step down, says Lai Mohammed. "There are some people today who have access to power and they are afraid that if the power moves to Jonathan, they will lose that access." Nigerians, he says, "treat power as a mistress, and something we would not want to share with anybody, not even...
Domino's won't say why exactly they took this dramatic step, but I suspect that the company realized they needed to pre-empt rivals scrambling to supplant them as America's worst-case dinner option. "The competition is incredibly fierce," McIntyre says. "We saw that consumers' tastes changed, that they do evolve, that there's more competition." (See the top 10 food trends...
...conference convened in London by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and co-hosted by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was to foster confidence that a positive outcome could be achieved sooner rather than later. "Today's conference represents a decisive step towards greater Afghan leadership to secure, stabilize and develop Afghanistan," declared the concluding communiqu...