Word: tides
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...editorial, the GOP should expect to be mocked in the media these days. "It was Barack Obama who proved that a candidate has the ability to disseminate facts and a message to millions of voters directly," wrote Gillespie, a former adviser to President Bush. "Republicans need to turn this tide, and fast...
...pattern that has been particularly pronounced in Africa, whose post-independence history has been dominated by Big Men, despots like Mobutu Sese Seko, ruler of Zaire for 32 years, who took the country as personal reward for "liberating" it. But it is also observed around the world. A tide of leftwing revolt in Latin America, China and Southeast Asia left much of the same sour legacy of totalitarianism. In India, the Gandhi family has towered over its democracy for 60 years. In the Middle East, after helping broker a historic peace deal with Israel in 1993, Yasser Arafat's Fatah...
...home game of the season, the Crimson stumbled out of the gate. Two exclusions and a Brown penalty shot provided the basis for an early 4-0 deficit. But Harvard refused to let the second match of the day go the way of the first and quickly turned the tide around.“We did a great job of digging ourselves out of that hole,” Farrar said. “And it was game on from there.”With the score at 4-3, the Crimson utilized back-to-back Kennifer goals to round...
...feel encouraged about our economic near future - not this damned decade but the one to come - ignore the stock traders and go talk to some venture capitalists. They aren't quite giddy (after the '80s and '90s and '00s, beware all giddiness), but they are optimistic about an imminent tide of innovations in technology, energy and transportation. Recall, please, the national mood in the mid-'70s: after the 1960s party, we found ourselves in a slough of despondency, with an oil crisis, a terrible recession, a kind of Weimarish embrace of decadence, national malaise - and at that very dispirited moment...
...Recently, however, an emboldened tide of Democratic partisans, including former President Bill Clinton, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, and Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, have once more called for the doctrine’s resurrection. President Obama and the Senate, on the other hand, have wisely come out against re-imposing this “balance” to the airwaves...