Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Biden's greatest strength is his foreign policy expertise - an area where McCain has consistently beaten Obama in polls. "My thoughts are along the lines of the line in the Jerry McGuire film - 'You complete me," says Karl Inderfurth, an international relations expert at George Washington University. "Obama needed a helping hand from his vice presidential pick on the foreign policy front, the recent Russia-Georgia crisis underscores this. And that's what he will...
...team sports," he said, when asked what American fans who have not followed his team's run might be missing. "The sum of our parts are much greater than the individual aspects. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. There's a lot of unity and strength to this group. I don't know if that's of any interest to Americans, but that's what they're missing." He parried a reporter's effort to get him to open up, saying that nothing in particular went through his mind when the team won. His players weren...
...beat up the U.S., and lost by 20, albeit with one of their best players unable to play most of the game. And Spain has never matched Argentina's intensity. Plus, Spain likes to push the ball up the court, so going all tough guy means scrapping your strength. And oh yeah, the U.S. crushed Spain by 37 points in the preliminaries. "It's really hard to play two bad games in one week, you know," says Spanish guard Raul Lopez. For those of us desperate for one compelling game for the Americans, we pray you're right, Raul. Thing...
...experience them, of how he suddenly -and unconvincingly - started to say he was "angry" about this or that when his consultants told him that Howard Dean's anger about the war in Iraq was hitting home with voters. And then, in the general election, Kerry kept repeating the word strength rather than demonstrating it. Clearly, Obama's consultants have given him similar advice, that he was on the short end of a passion gap - that it was time for emo. A day earlier, he had said wage disparities between genders made his "blood boil...
...part of the so-called International Security Assistance Force, a U.S-led contingent of 52,000 NATO soldiers, that continues to police Afghanistan in the war on terror. "Beyond the immediate human reaction to this loss of life, this attack is most instructive in telling us about the rapidly rising strength and capacity of the people we're up against," says Francois Heisbourg, special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Studies in Paris. "The Taliban have been allowed to reconstitute and re-arm themselves to levels nearing those prior to the invasion...