Word: scouts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...scouting report was to shut down [Smith] and [Schram],” Rollins said. “If you can’t execute your scout, you can’t really expect to win the game...
...think the Obama administration wanted someone who is squeaky clean, and certainly Gary is a Boy Scout." - Paul Berendt, former Washington State Democratic Chairman, on Locke's fairly boring past (he actually was a Boy Scout), Seattle Times...
...graduate of The Groton School, an elite New England boarding school, Roosevelt was one of a select few who traveled to Cambridge in his senior year of high school to scout premier dorm rooms. His suite of rooms would come to a sum of $400 a year—the annual salary of a working man at the time...
...populated by cops and firefighters that rush hour looked like the shift change at a station house. A popular teen prank was setting off the red fire-alarm box near his modest brick house on 101st Street. Nearly everyone tried it once, but not Eric, the churchgoing Boy Scout who knew the consequence of disobeying rules: "A good, quick smack on the bottom," his mother Miriam recalls. "If you did something wrong, you're going to have to pay a price...
...advice to Mr. Panetta: resist it. This country cannot afford to turn the CIA into a Boy Scout troop. And there is a quick and easy fix to CIA staffing. Iraq and Afghanistan are grossly overstaffed with good, capable officers. These people are more than adequate to run the CIA's posts around the world. Having so many people in Iraq and Afghanistan was a Bush White House decision. Cut back in those two countries by two-thirds and the CIA will do just fine...