Word: crashes
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...approach is echoed in a Bloomberg interview, which also gives some insight into his manner and demeanor. The nominee certainly believes that the role of Fed Chairman can make the critical difference to the fate of the economy: In an essay in Foreign Policy, he argues that the 1929 crash could have been averted by a smarter hand on the Fed tiller...
...Milam, 39, is a rescue swimmer for the U.S. Coast Guard in Kodiak, Alaska, which means he spends most of his time jumping out of helicopters to help fishermen who break bones and pilots who crash their private planes. "We're pretty much the area ambulance service," he says. Before he was dispatched to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Milam had never been called out of Alaska for a mission and had never done urban search-and-rescue work. But like thousands of other personnel, he was brought to Louisiana to do what the Coast Guard does...
...Hagan’s arm or Dawson’s health. Wasn’t Derek Davis’ 72-yard rush on the first place of the game a little unexpected—a little surreal—to watch unfold? “We have a crash blitz called into their reverse, and our guy misses the tackle and he takes it to the house,” Murphy said. “It was just plays here and there which made the football game, and certainly that was a big one.”Was it more...
...them feature drifting, youthful protagonists. A Party down at the Square tells the story of a lynching from the point of view of a white boy. It is a masterpiece, exploring from the inside the clubby, seductive nature of racism. In the memorable title story a young black pilot crashes during a training flight. When an old, poor black man and his son come across the crash site, the pilot feels "cut off from them by age, by understanding, by sensibility, by technology." Later, a white landowner has the pilot taken away in a straitjacket, figuring any black...
...crook!” Davis said, demonstrating her rule about not using the opponent’s language.The members also attended several sessions on policy and skills, taught by political operatives and students experienced in campaign work.Bird, the key instructor for the sessions on political tactics, taught a crash course in campaigning. A critic of the Democratic Party’s electoral apparatus, Bird railed against what he called a “consultantocracy” in which political consultants are more concerned with making money than winning races. He also said that one of the largest problems facing Democrats...