Word: accustomedness
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Just as with the Iowa caucuses, organization is key in Nevada; the idea isn't just to finish first in the big population centers, as it is in primaries, but to win the rural areas as well since delegates are pre-apportioned across the state. But while all three top...
Obama has promised a new kind of politics that eschews conventional racial posturing. Delivering on that promise is crucial to his success. Doing so will require the courage to risk disappointing those who have become accustomed to formulaic gestures of racial loyalty. That is a daunting challenge but one Obama...
IN 1968, WHILE TREATING impoverished rural amputees in Jaipur, India, orthopedic surgeon P.K. Sethi and local craftsman Ram Chandra devised something revolutionary: an affordable prosthetic foot made of flexible materials that offered mobility for villagers accustomed to walking barefoot and sitting on the floor. First used broadly for land-mine...
In a country accustomed to civility and consensus rather than conflict, the unprecedented ousting of a Cabinet member - for the most part, ministers leave the Federal Council out of their own volition - has been hotly debated on the streets and in the highest reaches of government. Although some members of...
Hajj was considered a leading candidate to take over as army commander from Suleiman if he is elected President. The killing of a senior officer in the widely revered Lebanese army has stunned a country that has grown bitterly accustomed to assassinations and bombings over the past four years. He...