Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...billions of dollars in loan guarantees to grease the wheels. Before GM made its sudden U-turn on Nov. 3, Merkel had also been riding high. She was coming off an electoral victory in September and had just given a rousing speech before a joint session of Congress in Washington. The timing of the bombshell from GM had to sting. Then on Thursday came another blow: the carmaker's announcement that it would cut 10,000 jobs across Europe...
...There is a just a massive effort underway to rebrand Bob McDonnell, and his whole legislative career speaks otherwise. The voters have a right to know who these candidates really are." - Former Virginia delegate Barnie K. Day, who supports Deeds, on McDonnell's conservative record.(Washington Post...
...thesis is a serious problem for me - as a feminist and someone who supports gay rights. Definitely I feel like he's a reactionary." - Ann Merchant, a Democrat who voted for Deeds, on McDonnell's controversial thesis (Washington Post...
...judge a man by his record, not by his thesis. He's done right." - Pat Echols, 84-year-old voter who served in the state senate in the 1960s (Washington Post...
...incrementally reduced contacts with the regime and increased sanctions against it for its record of violating human rights and quashing democracy. Larry Dinger, the chargé d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Rangoon, was quoted in the state-run Myanmar Times this week saying Washington wanted to make progress on "important issues" but would maintain sanctions "until concrete progress is made." The State Department has referred to the trip as a "fact-finding mission...