Word: tanked
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...Obama's memoir dripped with contempt for modern gotcha politics, for a campaign culture obsessed with substantively irrelevant but supposedly symbolic gaffes like John Kerry ordering Swiss cheese or Al Gore sighing or George H.W. Bush checking his watch or Michael Dukakis looking dorky in a tank. "What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics-the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial," he wrote...
...advantage of that change. "A lot depends on the mood after the Inauguration, as to whether the new U.S. Administration will want to be connecting to the multilateralist argument, in which case Brown will be in the right place," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Labour-affiliated think tank the Fabian Society...
...going to ask to maintain temporary conservatorship for the foreseeable future until we conclude the investigation," said TDFPS spokesman Darrell Azar. Each child will be given legal representation, said Scott McCown, a former district judge who now heads the Center for Public Policy Priorities, an Austin think tank that has been critical of state funding for social welfare agencies. Any parent who is indigent or can't afford a lawyer also will get legal representation. But the sheer size of the case and the number of children is going to be a "challenge for an underfunded system," McCown said...
...traditions,” Wang said. They achieved this end by opening their segment with Western hip-hop inspired clothing to act as a contrast to the more Eastern clothing that followed. The outfits underscored the gracefulness yet ferocity of the Asian style. Female models donned jeans and tank tops layered with brightly colored sweatshirts and patterned dresses. Models for the show were chosen based not on their physical appearance, but on whether the directors felt they had the right attitude for Identities. “Identities was very much about the models and not just having them be these...
...stooge," and warned of "catastrophic consequences" due to his new policies. "The North Koreans are asking how hard they have to slap Lee until they push him back on the Sunshine road," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Lee has shown no intention of changing his mind. Kim, Lee's national-strategy secretary, calmly dismisses the North's rhetoric as "not a new phenomenon." In late March, South Korea's representative voted for a U.N. resolution criticizing North Korea's human-rights record, a reversal of Seoul...