Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bred another, kinder-and- dorkier group of stars: the geekocracy. CNN's John King broke down election returns and poll figures on a touchscreen "magic wall," while NBC guru Chuck Todd crunched numbers on what resembled an electronic Risk board. Meanwhile, a raft of bloggers used the Web's strength--indulging obsessiveness--to create temples of poll analysis. Chief among them was Nate Silver, a baseball-statistics nut at whose FiveThirtyEight.com habitués debate weighting averages and tracking-poll internals until the wee hours...
...Iraq, by contrast, has some 160,000 coalition troops and a nearly 600,000-strong professional national-security force. If there is to be a surge at all, it will most likely be an Afghan one. The U.S. has pledged $20 billion to nearly double the Afghan army's strength by 2012, but it is still short more than half the necessary military trainers to do the job. "The sheer business of training the army, equipping them, deploying them and creating the infrastructure takes time," says the NATO commander. "And the only way to buy time is to bring...
...strength of Obama's surge in Hamilton is evident in the lift it is giving down-ballot Democrats who otherwise might not stand a chance. On a recent afternoon, congressional candidate Steve Driehaus spent a few hours knocking on doors in Forest Park, a North Side working-class suburb of mostly African-American families that have moved out of the city. It's a neighborhood where nearly every front window sports a yellow ribbon or American-flag decal, and Driehaus barely needs to make his pitch. "Oh, yeah, we're voting for you," says a middle-aged woman...
...white haze. All around her, the blur of white walls and white pillars and spare mahogany furniture seemed to dissolve into one streak, like a spirit. She sank to the floor, clasping her hands. And as if a voice had spoken to her, she knew with a sudden strength and certainty that the stranger was not good—nay! that he was evil on earth. She knew that he had come to the villa to contaminate its residents, to possess them with his wickedness. And she also knew, or so whispered the voice that resonated in the inner chambers...
...same quality that some of his darker films, like “Mystic River,” can boast. In spite of all this, “Changeling,” unlike Eastwood’s other bleak dramas, revels in the capacity of the human spirit for strength and love—something that, as Christine says, “Gives me something I didn’t have before tonight—hope...