Word: tractioneer
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...really had no promises [of change],” Brown said. “The most promising thing is the G-clock policy, which really is already a policy. Immediately, I think that’s the stuff that we’ll get the most traction...
...them. If primaries are about winning the base, Obama's conciliatory approach could not have been more out of tune, and by last summer, he looked as if he might fizzle. His crowds were huge, and the money rolled in, but weeks went by, and he couldn't get traction. In debates, he seemed not to know what he was doing. "You could say he wasn't very good at debates," said a longtime supporter, "but that would be nice. He was just bad at it." Come September, he was trailing Clinton by about 2 to 1 in most surveys...
...example, the long-standing goal of reaching out to departments throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in order to pinpoint the particulars of writing in various disciplines seems to have lost traction, according to Classics Professor Richard F. Thomas and philanthropist Morton I. Sosland ’46, whose family gave millions to start Expos in the 1990s...
...Missouri's demographics and its election rules make it particularly tough to handicap a close race here. Because the state mirrors America, every conceivable issue might gain traction - Missouri has nervous factory workers and ethanol-happy farmers; it has failing school districts and wealthy boomers irritated by the estate tax; it has huge corporations alongside angry populists. No one agenda has captured the race...
Mitt Romney: Can his retooled message, focusing on his Mr. Fix-it record and his business credentials, gain traction? The other candidates will be limping into Florida with little money; Romney's wealth gives him the capability to write himself a check for tens of millions. And having won the little-contested Nevada caucuses on the same day as the South Carolina primary, Romney comes to Florida with bragging rights for having won the most votes and the most delegates to date...