Word: turning
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David Souter came to the supreme court as a man who was expected to make conservatives happy. To put it mildly, it didn't turn out that...
...Dalai Lama seemed at every turn to want to soften the hard intellectual mood - to have a flickering back-and-forth with the other panelists. He took his shoes off at one point and carefully folded his legs underneath him - first the left, then the right. He loudly blew his nose into a tissue at one point, and he laughed a lot with those great sparkly eyes...
...Soon after the “Turning up the Volume” initiative was underway, the world economy began to “turn down the volume” on employment opportunities. Regrouping, OCS realized new programming was needed to help students learn key strategies for acquiring jobs or internships during more difficult circumstances...
...that Souter has made the decision to leave the court when it finishes its term in June, Washington will turn its attention to whom Obama might nominate to replace him. Souter's reliably liberal stand on issues means that the President's choice won't change the balance of the court on any of the high-profile social issues it handles, like abortion, civil rights or the death penalty. But it does present the President with both political opportunities and challenges, as well as a test of what is thought to be his center-left judicial outlook...
...authoritarianism and autarchy, this power to transform the fringe is slipping. With the prize of becoming an E.U. member seeming to move further and further out of their reach, the Balkans and Turkey - politically fragile and economically vulnerable - could reverse any reforms they've already undertaken in order to turn themselves into better E.U. candidates...