Word: struck
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama was struck by the advantages LBJ had that he doesn't: Johnson was just coming off a landslide election victory and had bigger Democratic majorities on Capitol Hill, where individual members were not nearly as independent of their party leaders as they are now. Nor was the Republican Party of 1965 as uniformly conservative as it is today. Obama must contend with a rougher political culture, fueled by a press corps that in the President's words "gets bored with the details easily, and it very easily slips into a very conventional debate about government-run health care...
...what common sense already tells us - texting behind the wheel is a really bad idea. Two recent examples: two months ago a Boston trolley driver slammed into another trolley just after text-messaging his girlfriend, injuring 62 people. In September, 25 people were killed when a California train engineer struck a freight train after texting a friend. And a video of a Texas bus driver apparently striking a car while texting has been making the rounds on YouTube. It's hard to argue against banning the practice for drivers - 14 states already do - though it remains an open question whether...
...both circumstances, as President, you have to help make - help to make the case publicly, but then you also have to work through a wide range of divergent interests - geographical, ideological - and that involves combining firmness of purpose with some flexibility to get the job done. Whether we've struck that right balance we'll find out in the next couple of months...
...went back and read your announcement speech again, and it struck me that even then - you brought up health care maybe three or four times, but you even then were framing it in - as a cost-containment issue, not just a coverage. In fact, you seem to be putting more emphasis on cost containment...
...government has recently accused Chaudhry of encroaching on its prerogatives. Earlier this month, he struck down a new government "carbon tax" imposed in compliance with IMF demands to phase out fuel subsidies. Zardari responded with a presidential decree that brought the price of gas back...