Word: turnabout
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...Hillary Clinton's hand shot up. After hesitating noticeably, Senator Barack Obama joined her. Edwards did not, even though he has used the phrase himself and a policy paper on his Web site refers to "winning the war on terror." And now, in his first interview to explain his turnabout, Edwards tells TIME that he will no longer use what he views as "a Bush-created political phrase...
...even patient negotiation - are becoming more acceptable in Bushland. American diplomats have asked the Jordanians for their notes on the Clinton-era negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis, seeking to restart the Middle East peace talks that fell apart abruptly at the end of 2000. That's yet another turnabout for an Administration that lampooned those very talks...
Forecasters are calling it a new austerity or?instead of conscious consumerism?conscience consumerism or even conscious abstention. After decades of excess and extremes, consumers are showing signs of a surprising turnabout: a collective drive toward responsibility, discretion and moderation...
This is a welcome turnabout for the church. As opportunities opened for women in the 1960s and '70s, fewer of them viewed the asceticism and confinements of religious life as a tempting career choice. Since 1965, the number of Catholic nuns in the U.S. has declined from 179,954 to just 67,773, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. The average age of nuns today is 69. But over the past decade or so, expressing their religious beliefs openly has become hip for many young people, a trend intensified among Catholic women...
...Kerry's speech to Clinton's, they were hardly excited about seeing the Massachusetts Senator run again. Even as an anti-war candidate, he may be found wanting. Edwards, his former running mate, declared that his war vote was a mistake way back in November, months before Kerry's turnabout. A Des Moines Register poll this week found that 30% of prospective voters in the Democratic caucuses in Iowa said they preferred Edwards, compared with 26% for Clinton - and just 12% for Kerry...