Word: though
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Upper Crust is giving away free whoopie pies if you order a combination of three pies or calzones. These aren't just regular whoopie pies that we get during brain break in the dining halls, though. They're big—five pounds...
Just before Christmas, Obama invited Gates to the Oval Office and asked him to stay on. Gates agreed to remain for another year, though he told me it was highly unlikely he would finish the term...
...Though Elmendorf, 47, hasn't always told lawmakers what they wanted to hear in his year on the job, he has won wide praise for his independence. A native of upstate New York, he taught at Harvard before joining the CBO as an analyst in 1993. Since then, he has done stints at the Federal Reserve, the Council of Economic Advisers and the Treasury Department. "I have enormous respect for him," says Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad. "He plays it straight, and he's enormously serious about getting it right...
...though everyone talks about bringing soft power and a civilian surge to Afghanistan, in reality there are very few civilians to surge with. From the moment Gates put McChrystal in charge of the war, the military usurped control of the Afghanistan debate; ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who reports to Clinton as her special envoy to the region, was relegated to the sidelines...
...understandable why the realist might steer away from the label of realism, particularly in time of terrorism and war. Realism is a fuzzy thing; it can accommodate both darkness and light. On the dark side, it denotes cynicism, indifference to higher principles, opportunism. On the positive side, though, it implies a lack of dogmatism or ideological blinders, an ability to respond to the world as it actually is. (See photos of Obama's visit to Asia...