Word: thanked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...winning on both counts. His opposition to the war is looking less radical every day. His style-his imprudence, his plain talk-just doesn't sound like the other guys. At the Dems' winter meeting in Washington, he arrived at the podium and, instead of lapsing into the usual thank-you blather, blasted off like a rocket-propelled grenade: "What I want to know is why so many Democrats in Washington aren't standing up against Bush's unilateral war in Iraq." This was followed by several more withering "What I want to knows" and then the introduction: "My name...
...Today, we are all here to say we will invest in young people’s future,” Menino told the assembled group of youths and organizers from the 16 HASI programs. “I want to thank President Larry Summers and Harvard for really stepping up to the plate to help our summer programs...
...thank Larry Summers and Harvard for being part of our city,” he said. “And they are part of the city—they own more land in Boston than they do in Cambridge...
...that Oliver "made people feel they were part of a network that never ended." If your kid needed a photo with the President, Oliver made it happen. He kept in touch with fund raisers by conference call and e-mail and rallied them for the midterm election, writing gracious thank-you notes in his trademark blue felt-tip pen. After Congress doubled the gift limit to $2,000 a pop, Oliver helped institute a higher tier of fund raiser: the Rangers, who each raise $200,000 or more...
...Others, like Joella Werlin, 65, a former TV producer from Portland, Ore., have chosen to lock theirs away with their legal wills, wanting them revealed only upon death. "I'm not trying to tell anyone what they have to do. My grown children already know they have to write thank-you notes. I wanted to write a letter to my grandchildren telling them what had given me pleasure in life," says Werlin...