That force field, said a number of strategists and officials, is comprised of Mr. Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, press secretary Robert Gibbs and 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe.
The very biggest U.S. financial institutions seem to have attracted a force field around them, guaranteeing that there is at least a limited subset of banks that are too big to fail.
"They just had so much faith in the president's ability to navigate all this and that no matter what the right threw at him, the president would have this force field of trust that would protect him, " a House strategist said.
The film resembles "Independence Day" in several ways, the most obvious being the beating that the White House takes. (Also the C-130's eerie ability to defend itself against our Air Force interceptors, at least for a while, by putting out a futuristic force field.) But there's a crucial difference, and to discuss it I must first make a confession.
Oil has also blessed the city with a powerful force-field against the housing crisis.
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If the force-field models do turn out to be accurate reflections of reality, it will be possible to try some new things.
Initially, this service will have broad applicability for large enterprises that maintain a dispersed work force in the field.
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But because Novartis' field force is still smaller than Pfizer's or GlaxoSmithKline's, the company has signed on Bristol-Myers Squibb to comarket Zelmac.
In other words, give the HP field force a decent, credible vision (converged) and a decent, appropriate product (3PAR) and it looks as if it can start to turn the tide.
Jim Harbaugh recognized that in order for Stanford to win, the team would need to turn itself into a power force on the field whose physicality led its way to victories.
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Sure, there were impressive competitors, including HP, Data General , and even mighty IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people), but DEC was the defining force in the field.
The 37-year-old Rodriguez has been as much a lightning rod for back-page fodder and the subject of Major League Baseball investigations as he has been a force on the field since joining the Yankees in 2004.
Friendly with LeBron James and a number of sports superstars, Jay-Z could quickly make Roc Nation a force in the agency field.
According to Gensler, there is value in the idea of a brand or individual striving to be an influential force in their respective field.
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In addition to the Internet taint, Overture suffers from fears that privately held Google--the dominant force in the search field--will run it out of business.
Finding enough well-trained frontline soldiers to field a force of up to 60, 000 for up to a year out of Europe's 2m-strong armed forces ought not to be that hard.
Plaid Cymru, which opposed the creation of PCCs, discussed its position at the weekend and may back non-party candidates in the four Welsh police force areas rather than field its own.
The industry wisdom was that Schmidt was a great technologist but an unproven force on the corporate chess field.
Several EU ministers said arming the opposition would create a more level playing field that could force Assad into a negotiated settlement.
Prosecuting retaliatory campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq took hundreds of additional billions of defense outlays to field the operational force, to stage people, weapons, ammunition, spare parts, fuel supplies and all the rest to faraway lands.
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The author examines at length whether the Chinese have mistakenly lost sight of the need to field a kinetic weapons force in tandem with command and control warfare.
HITS, in which six sensors are placed inside the helmet of every player on the field, measuring the force and location of every blow he receives to the head.
They decline significantly from one year to the next because each barrel of oil taken from a reservoir reduces the pressure within the field, leaving less force available to push the next barrel of oil up the well.
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If the demand, as some believe, or unfortunately as some coalition force members who worked in this field believed, that they bring 150-thousand people under the title of Awakening and get incorporated into security forces under a sectarian title, this means taking the country back to sectarian confrontation -- Sunnis and Shiites struggling with each other within the institution.
From his days growing up in Oceanside, California to All America status at USC and superstardom with the San Diego Chargers and later with the Dolphins and Patriots, he was a force of nature on and off the field.
Franks, who would soon retire and be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, said he ordered the transition to force the Pentagon to get leaders into the field to work with civilian occupation officials.
At Oort-cloud distances, the strength of this combined gravity adds up to the same sort of force as that exerted by the solar gravitational field, enfeebled as it is by its remoteness from the sun.
The hardiest perennial in the anti-testing campaign and a prominent feature of the current effort to induce President Clinton to reject a resumption of nuclear testing is the argument that unless the United States observes a moratorium on nuclear testing, the former Soviet Union will resume its own test program and come, thereby, to field a more threatening offensive nuclear force.
The scientists applied a force to the ions by imposing an additional electric field on them.
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Force-walk kid through woods, across soccer field, to one of the houses on Poole.
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