Word: ushered
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...squash Russia's budding democracy. It was in August 2000 that the Kursk submarine sank, and the Ostankino TV tower in Moscow caught fire. It was in August 1999 that apartment houses were bombed in Moscow, the second Chechen war started, and the political fervor it stirred helped usher Vladimir Putin to the presidency...
...also a sign that McCain, like many people, did not fully understand how much the evangelical landscape had changed since Falwell first arrived back in the 1970s to reshape it. The current climate exists both because and in spite of him: no one did more to usher fundamentalist Christians into the political arena, but he could not control what happened once they got there...
...firm handshake and an unexpected round of applause saw incoming French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday usher his predecessor from the Elysee Palace - and out of a political career that spanned nearly four decades. It also officially ushered Jacques Chirac's 12-year presidential record into history, where his domestic and international legacies will be a matter of ongoing debate...
...know how the monk feels, because I have on my desk the would-be successor to the book. It's called the Sony Reader, and it's designed to do for the book what the iPod did for music: that is, usher it, skipping gaily, into the paradise of portable digital consumption. The Reader is a sleek, soigné little object--you can almost sense it trying to look literary, as though it should come with a decanter of sherry as a USB peripheral. Although it's slightly smaller and thinner than a trade paperback, one Sony Reader can hold about...
...track while growing up in Memphis, and only decided that he wanted to learn to dance during his junior year of high school. “I started out just watching music videos,” he says. “Anything I could look at—Usher, Ginuwine, Michael Jackson—because I didn’t know how to dance. And a lot of people can just be fine with that, but for me, I wanted to know something.”Intending to continue running track at Harvard, Oladehin auditioned for the Freshman Talent Show...