Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Governance Studies at the The Brookings Institution, suggested in 2001 that as a rule of thumb an incoming president need have their White House appointments -- their immediate inner circle -- in place by Thanksgiving (November 27) and Cabinet staff by Christmas (December 25).
After mass on Maundy Thursday before the Christian holiday of Easter, each of six villages on the Dalmatian island of Hvar in southern Croatia sends out a group that will proceed through the other villages in a circle, covering twenty-five kilometres in eight hours before returning home.
In the evening, Charles met an assortment of craftsmen at the City Palace, who sat cross-legged in a semi-circle showing off their colourful goods including sandalwood carvings, jewellery and miniature paintings.
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You get a few swings in the on-deck circle and then get your butt up in the box.
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So here he was, the Neon Snuffleupagus, live in the flesh, steps from Columbus Circle, dressed head-to-toe in electric-colored Nike.
Beyond the edge of the desk, I see a semi-circle of nerdy-looking guys each holding a pistol in one hand and an iPhone in the other.
Eric Staal, who less than a minute earlier came out of the penalty box, took a cross-zone pass in the right circle from Pitkanen and fired a quick one-timer that beat Lundqvist for his 14th goal of the season.
Or to repeat what you already know, the more that eurozone members pool their powers and sovereignty in the hope of finding a lasting solution to the currency union's crisis, the more that the UK becomes defined in their eyes - and those of other nations - as in the outer circle of EU influence.
She said people in Jersey were probably aware of the dolmen at La Hougue Bie and the gallery grave and cist-in-circle on the lower section of St Andrew's Park.
And that goes for not just Colonel Qaddafi but those around him who -- the circle of people in the regime around who make up the protection that keeps him in power.
All five slid out of my circle of friends as more and more yes-men began closing a new circle in around them.
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Eric Staal, who less than a minute earlier came out of the penalty box, took a cross-zone pass in the right circle from defenseman Joni Pitkanen and fired a quick one-timer that beat Lundqvist for his 14th goal of the season.
His best saves in the opening period were back-to-back stops on Henrique from low in the left circle and then a quick pad stop on Elias' uncontested rebound from point-blank range.
Ms O'Hara received the honour in an open-air service at the Gorsedd Circle at Tredegar House in Newport where the event is being held.
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Russ Juskalian, 30, is a journalist based in Munich who has reported from Southeast Asia, above the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland and from the Himalayan foothills in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
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The dials on these three innovations are sensitive, but if set in a recurring circle -- with empowering innovations creating more jobs than efficiency innovations eliminate, and the capital that efficiency innovations liberate being invested back into empowering innovations -- the economy is a magnificent machine.
Often bragging of his contacts with Mr. Yeltsin's family, he became a key conduit to decision makers in the ailing and absentee president's inner circle in the late 1990s -- a group known as "the family" -- and for a short spell he served as a member of Russia's national security council.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) Serena Williams routed Venus Williams 6-1, 6-2 at the Family Circle Cup on Saturday, the most one-sided match in the sisters' long rivalry.
Borel is the only jockey to win the Derby three times in a four-year span, standing in the winner's circle in 2007 with Street Sense, 2009 with Mine That Bird and 2010 with Super Saver.
The founders are a mother-daughter team Stacy McCoy and her mother Betsey Epstein with a full-circle plan for tech education and then landing newly tech-trained job seekers in positions with socially-conscious businesses.
In the first circle, Iran has its clients - Syria, Hizbullah, the Shiite (and increasingly the Sunni) militias in Iraq, and the Palestinians.
The point is to decrease the car's turning circle (another weak point in front-drive cars).
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In a room, a group of men gather in a half-circle around a naked woman.
Already in the circle are high-profile government departments, intelligence agencies, exiled leaders, and former heads of state.
Ronaldo is widely criticized for collapsing in tears in the center-circle, rather than rushing to celebrate with his team-mates.
Mr Castles and Mr Henderson argue that the circle of those involved in the climate-change exercise has been too restricted.
The goal came a half-minute after Sullivan was set up for a one-timer in the left circle, but his shot went just wide.
And some of the graves were marked by nothing more than gray, worn down rocks that poked up in a semi-circle like neglected, decaying teeth.
One of the central tenets of the opposition structures is that there can be no negotiation while Bashar al-Assad and his inner circle remain in power.
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