Word: modeler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That may be something to celebrate in the Olympics, which Romney famously turned around in Salt Lake. But throughout his presidential campaign, Romney has viewed business as a model for government, and in business, as in politics, there are no prizes for second place. In fact, his campaign refuses to characterize the Iowa Caucus results as a loss. "You have to remember, we started at zero," national spokesman Kevin Madden told the press. Romney "returned a good second place result. It's Washington that lost...
Such parsing has gone on for nearly 50 years, since the gestation of the model penal code after World War II. But it isn't getting us anywhere. Even supporters of capital punishment can't admire a process in which fewer than 3 in 100 death sentences imposed in the U.S. are carried out in any given year. California's death row houses more than 660 prisoners, but no one has been executed in the state in nearly two years. Pennsylvania, with 226 inmates on death row, hasn't carried out a sentence since the '90s. In Florida a spree...
...franchise," says Kraft. "What goes on--on and off the field--is a reflection of my family name. He said to me, 'Mr. Kraft, I've made a lot of money. I want to win. I want to be a Patriot.'" Moss took a pay cut, has been a model player and caught 23 touchdown passes, breaking Jerry Rice's single-season record. He roams the locker room in a T shirt that reads BE HUMBLE, OR GET HUMBLED...
...mediation group The Elders. However, Tutu's efforts to broker a compromise between the two sides had little immediate success. While he met Odinga, Tutu told a press conference he was unable to make an appointment with Kibaki. "This is a country that has been held up as a model of stability," said Tutu. "This picture has been shattered. This is not the Kenya that we know...
...major things that I've done, I've done alone," Biden said, citing his list of achievements from authoring the Violence Against Women Act to convincing former President Bill Clinton to intervene in Bosnia. "No one supported my plan for exiting Iraq [a federalist plan which has become the model endorsed by congressional Democrats] and yet in all those instances, people came around. That's change...