Nine months later, in a panic over rumours that nervous European leaders were scheming to have him shipped off to the remote Atlantic island of Saint Helena, Napoleon slipped aboard a departing ship and strode back into Paris for one last run at ruling Europe (the Hundred Days), ending in his defeat at Waterloo.
You're going to see the next hundred days with some real pace on the ball, no pun intended.
If this is the case, the third hundred days might look much less like the promise of the 2008 election and more like the political world that Obama wanted to transform.
The one thing that could undermine this whole effort is if you had read stories the last hundred days about how this money was being wasted and the tens of billions of dollars.
In fact, he's ready to reveal his agenda for the second hundred days and bring his truly weary forces back from their Easter break to wrestle the budget into balance through hundreds of billions of dollars of spending cuts.
Obama's first challenge in the third hundred days must be to diminish problem number one.
And it gives me great hope that the next hundred days and beyond will even have more speed on it.
Although Obama's campaign started with a promise of fundamentally changing the direction of national security policy, in the second hundred days, there has not been much evidence that he will be able to accomplish those goals, outside of completing the scheduled withdrawal from Iraq (though leaving more troops there than many hoped for).
On the hundred or so clear days a year when its summit is visible, McKinley is one of the most awe-inspiring sights on the continent.
Jimmy Carter, whose approval ratings were still strong at the end of his Hundred Days, never developed a strong working relationship with Democrats in Congress.
"Mr Major emerges from his hundred days the best-loved prime minister in living memory, his opinion poll ratings a consistent glow of approval, " wrote Peter Jenkins in The Independent.
The biggest problem during Carter's Hundred Days was that he grossly mishandled congressional relations, setting a poor tone for the months to come.
It's been a little more than a hundred days since the President signed the act, and while this is not the ultimate solution for our problems, we also know that it's a historic investment -- an investment in the American people and an investment in American business.
Aside from the bar and the spa, there was no escaping the ballrooms, where, for three days, some two hundred Republicans pondered the state of their party.
They all hoped to clear several hundred dollars in the next few days, she told me.
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For five years after he steps down, Welch will work part time for the behemoth he built: a hundred days a year.
For example, abuse of the original version over the past 30 days ran at 5.4 cases per hundred, while abuse of the new version settled quickly at about 2.4 cases per hundred.
In the last thirty days before the election, Whitaker and Baxter advertised in four hundred newspapers and on five hundred billboards.
The conference, which was held over three days, attracted more than a hundred top tier scholars and policymakers from around the world.
McCHESNEY: Driver says the Chevron terminal is pushing out over a hundred truckloads a day, so it could be many days before the job is finished.
The underlying text from which Petraeus proselytizes these days is a classified document, totalling several hundred pages, called the Joint Campaign Plan, written by Petraeus and Crocker.
It's a nice, little sanctuary but a far cry from the club's glory days over a hundred years ago when a wealthy member gave them a parcel of land at 40th and Broadway, along with the money to build the four-story Mendelssohn Hall.
The huge size of this legislation raises the stakes beyond what many presidents confronted in their Hundred Days.
It rained two hundred and eighty-seven days of the year, and the locals were given to magnificent mood swings.
Now, the vote is only a little more than a hundred days away.
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He is barely a hundred days into his administration, and the capacity of the Philippines to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory should never be underestimated.
In his new book on FDR's Hundred Days, Adam Cohen recounts how the hearings revealed how National City Bank had caused enormous problems by mixing commercial and investment banking, reaping huge profits as customers were persuaded to make terrible investments.
You see you only have to declare within the Safeguards Agreement a nuclear facility, ok, this is an important thing, you have to underline it, that you only declare a nuclear facility a hundred and eighty days before you introduce the nuclear material into that.
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