Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, but this is his big chance, and he seizes it. He's ordinary, pudgy-faced, quiet, and at first seems to lack the screen charisma to carry a film. That supposition vanishes in a few minutes, as Renner slowly reveals the strength, confidence and unpredictability of a young Russell Crowe. The merging of actor and character is one of the big things to love about this movie. The other is that its tone, of steely calm, takes its cue from the character it so acutely observes. It's as if James...
...experience a uniquely Persian tradition, head over to a Zurkaneh (or House of Strength) and watch a team of men, accompanied by a drummer and singer, perform an ancient sporting ritual that combines wrestling, aerobics, juggling and Sufi whirling...
Things were a bit calmer Sunday, but Saturday night, barely controlled panic reigned as people flooded stores for supplies and took to the highways, slowing interstate traffic to a crawl. Steven Grabert, of Thibodaux, Louisiana, said he and his wife were alarmed when Gustav rapidly gained strength Saturday afternoon and were glad they left early - it took them six hours to make the 138-mile drive. With most hotels along the Mississippi coast filled to capacity early Saturday morning, weary travelers had no choice but to continue, hoping to find lodging farther north...
...line against them. Iraqi security forces have arrested multiple Awakening leaders and disbanded some of the bands. For a time joint patrols and checkpoints involving both Iraqi security forces and Awakening fighters allowed the groups to function essentially as paramilitaries alongside the Iraqi army and police. But the growing strength of Iraqi security forces has led them to begin undertaking what would once have been joint operations on their own. Moreover, Maliki recently suggested that Awakening groups had outlived their usefulness, vowing to Shi'ite tribal leaders that all militias would eventually be disarmed. It is a long way from...
...Obama went through his domestic policy solutions to their problems without making it seem like a laundry list - and then he simply hammered John McCain on McCain's perceived strength, foreign policy. This is something that Republicans do and Democrats shy away from - challenging their opponents on perceived strength. At a moment when Americans are sick of the foreign entanglements that John McCain seems to seek at every turn, it seems a potentially profitable maneuver for Obama...