Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President plans to spend much of the four weeks before his convention, starting Aug. 30, offering a new stump speech, a fresh set of upbeat advertisements and proposals to help people balance work and family, retrain after job loss, prepare for retirement and gain greater control over their financial fortune. The new agenda is aimed squarely at the minority of undecided voters who may determine the election. Swing voters don't look backward, contends Matthew Dowd, Bush's chief strategist. "They want to know what you are going to do with a next term." What's more, the risk...
...into silence with a burst of newly acquired Cantonese obscenities. Yet the innocent idyll has a villain: Booth's father, a stiff, cocktail-swilling prig who denigrates the locals and mocks the boy's affection for "going native." The elder Booth "was a natural-born bully," writes his ever-upbeat son. "On the other hand, I did grow up mixing a mean cocktail." The heroine is his mother - spunky, intelligent and curious about all things Chinese. Dad, a civilian employee of the navy, wants to go home; Mum wants to stay. As the family heads for the ship that will...
...have been filed. If the Kazakh government can strike a deal with the Kashagan consortium on BG's stake, investors' jitters may subside. For its part, BG, which retains a 32.5% stake in the estimated 6 billion barrels of oil and gas lying in the Karachaganak field, is sounding upbeat. "We have been there for 10 years and we know it is pretty challenging," Chapman said last week. "But we have created a lot of value for the country and intend to carry on doing business there." The hardball tactics of the government could be a deterrent to new foreign...
Ending on perhaps the most uplifting note of an almost relentlessly upbeat convention week, Kerry portrayed himself as the candidate who would promote scientific and medical advances and lead America into a rosy future...
...their own slogans in the environs of the FleetCenter. Some, scorning the Party faithful who gathered nearby, urged passersby to trust President Bush at all costs; others used the convention as an opportunity to launch a fiercer brand of anti-administration rhetoric than might have been allowed on the upbeat stage, lacing their words with righteous condemnation and the occasional expletive...