Obama's first challenge in the third hundred days must be to diminish problem number one.
The huge size of this legislation raises the stakes beyond what many presidents confronted in their Hundred Days.
You're going to see the next hundred days with some real pace on the ball, no pun intended.
Now, the vote is only a little more than a hundred days away.
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And it gives me great hope that the next hundred days and beyond will even have more speed on it.
For five years after he steps down, Welch will work part time for the behemoth he built: a hundred days a year.
The biggest problem during Carter's Hundred Days was that he grossly mishandled congressional relations, setting a poor tone for the months to come.
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.
Well, look, since I was the guy put in charge of it, I want to make sure these first hundred days we do it right.
"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.
But I think anybody is hard-pressed to look back over a significant period of time like 99 or a hundred days and think you wouldn't have done some things differently.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Yet, a hundred-odd days from polling day, three potential pitfalls still lie in Mr Sarkozy's way.
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.
Ulrich, a blind Bulgarian man who is nearly a hundred, spends his days remembering and daydreaming.
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.
Three hundred and eighty-five days after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, the boycott ended.
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It rained two hundred and eighty-seven days of the year, and the locals were given to magnificent mood swings.
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.
They all hoped to clear several hundred dollars in the next few days, she told me.
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Mr. SEAN CARPENTER (River Guide, Port of Gold Beach, Oregon): There have been days where maybe a hundred fish were caught, hooked all day, and 25 landed.
While many remember the failed blow-out preventer and bad judgement all-around, a sloppy cement job in the Macondo Well, meant to save a couple of days and a few hundred thousand dollars, failed.
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