Word: anchoring
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Whatever the composition of the final Bush team, Cheney would be its anchor. When healthy, he sends enormously reassuring signals to Republicans, the nation and overseas. He is known from Keokuk to Kathmandu. That is not yet true of the man poised to be his boss, and it would take some growth in Washington for Bush to make up the deficit. The first step will be for Bush to put his hand on the Bible in January and finally take office. Now it's up to Cheney to help get him there...
Ramadan's chosen task is to invent an independent European Islam: "We need to separate Islamic principles from their cultures of origin and anchor them in the cultural reality of Western Europe." With 15 million Muslims on the Continent, Ramadan believes it's time to abandon the dichotomy in Muslim thought that has defined Islam in opposition to the West. "I can incorporate everything that's not opposed to my religion into my identity," he says, "and that's a revolution...
...Georges, Jeremy Funke '04 makes a doubtful leading man around which to anchor the production. He quickly forgets to affect drunkenness and in his black sneakers, black jeans, too-long belt and skinny tie, he looks more like a reject from a ska band than anyone who would be comfortable in the domestic sphere. Stephen Quinlan '04 is a high point as Jeremiah, the aforementioned smug butler; he carefully tries to integrate his often detached-sounding spoken lines into a coherent dramatic performance...
Larson earned 1999 Ivy Player of the Year honors for efforts as Harvard's sweeper. She was the anchor of a Crimson defense that gave up just eight goals during the regular season--the lowest total in the nation...
...issue distinguishes Browne as a sort of lone ranger and a definite Washington outsider. Or consider the sensationalist appeal of the infamous "meatball" spot for Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan. The advertisement begins with a portly man eating spaghetti and meatballs in front of his television. When the anchor breaks the news that English is no longer the nation's official language, the man chokes on his meatball in shock...