Word: stumps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...look and feel of natural products really resonates with customers," says Alex Bates, senior vice president of product development for West Elm, the home-furnishings retailer whose current catalog is filled with animal-patterned fabrics, tree-stump tables, wood-imprinted carpets and an antler-inspired lamp that has become a runaway big seller. "It's a lot of borrowing of and being inspired by natural patterns and textures," she says. "There's definitely a connection between the growing popularity and concern with environmental issues and respect for the natural world...
Rudy Giuliani has been running for President in a blur-literally. He needs his eyeglasses to see distance, but at most events he won't wear them. Instead, he rattles through his stump speech-tax cuts increase revenue, beware of Hillary Clinton, remember 9/11-while gazing into a fuzzy void. The spectacles come on only briefly, during question time, so he can make eye contact with his inquisitors...
...challenge for Obama and candidates like him is to establish a connection with traditional black constituencies while still maintaining a postracial profile. It's fitting that Obama often closes his stump speeches with an anecdote drawn from a campaign stop in South Carolina that reveals something about how he sees his identity...
...race goes on to Florida, and guess who's sitting there like a bug on a stump? Rudy Giuliani," said Mit Spears, a Washington Republican in Romney's camp. Florida's Jan. 29 primary will test the former New York City mayor's unconventional strategy of hanging back until the race reaches the megastates, where his celebrity gives him extra leverage...
...course, Obama will be more closely scrutinized now. He will have news organizations and rival operations assessing his voting records, personal investments and stump speeches for even a whisper of inconsistency or impropriety...