Word: turning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gone to the Treasury to beg for bonuses for some of its most important traders, people who make the banks extraordinary amounts of money. The Treasury's reaction will probably be that it wants to stay out of a fight with Congress and avoid negative public opinion and will turn the request down...
...decision to turn down the Laetare Medal, Mary Ann Glendon raised objections to the university’s willingness to honor someone whose “fundamental moral principles” differ from those of the Catholic Church...
...millions of garages across America. Unlike me, my kids didn't grow up in the backseat of a Pontiac. They grew up in the backseat of a Honda Accord, then a Toyota Camry and finally a Toyota Sienna minivan. So guess what? I suspect that when it's their turn to buy their first new cars, they'll be looking at the brands they know best, just as their father did a generation ago. Their old man wishes, in his heart, that they could buy a Pontiac. But his brain, and his wallet, dictate otherwise. Pontiac didn't give...
...great plus in looking back and trying to make the Democrats' adversaries from the Bush years pay with an extra pound of flesh," says Norman Ornstein, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Independents, including those who drifted over from the GOP because of their unhappiness with the rightward turn of the party - and its incompetence - are not likely to resonate to attacks, and most voters want a focus on problem-solving, meaning looking to today and tomorrow, not yesterday...
...Correa, 46, will probably enjoy a majority in the National Assembly, Ecuador's legislature. He was first elected in 2006 after promoting a new constitution to lead Ecuador out of the "long night of neoliberalism." Close to two-thirds of voters approved that new charter last September, which in turn prompted the weekend's vote to give all elected officials, from the President down to local administrations, a fresh start under new rules that strengthen executive power...