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Word: touchings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...near term, FAS will cease nearly all discretionary facility upgrades and enhancements, such as touch-up painting, painting simply to change the color of a space, and carpet replacements in cases where the existing carpet is still serviceable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: List of FAS Budget Measures, May 11 | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...shows that faculty opinion is really out of touch with student opinion, but more importantly it shows student support for the cadets and midshipmen,” Motley said...

Author: By Edward-michael Dussom, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poll Results Favor ROTC Recognition | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...packed with poll-driven, soundbite-friendly phrases to choose from. Expect to hear Republicans soon speaking earnestly of preserving "the sacred doctor-patient relationship" by never "putting politicians in charge of your health care." And not just any old politicians, but "federal bureaucrats, Washington lobbyists and out-of-touch politicians." Luntz even strings his creations together into mini-speeches on the topic, including phrases such as this soon-to-be C-SPAN classic: "We need targeted reform with measurable results that improves patient care - not a politicized, special interest-driven radical restructuring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Republicans Should Talk About Health Care | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...says GOP lobbyist Ed Rogers. Republicans never really left the idea business, but Americans haven't been buying what they're selling, and their product line hasn't changed. They're starting to look like the Federalists of the early 19th century: an embittered, over-the-top, out-of-touch regional party en route to extinction, doubling down on dogma the electorate has already rejected. Our two-party system encourages periodic pendulum swings, but given current trends, it's easy to imagine a third party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Year Ago: The Republicans in Distress | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...explained his culture, including the wild plants his tribesmen use to clean their teeth. "They don't go out and buy Colgate, do they?" she tells me. Says Looseyia's partner Gerard Beaton: "The tourists all come for the animals, but in the end it's the people that touch them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya's Blackboard Jungle | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

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