With as many as three potential vacancies in the next four years, our next President will have a unique opportunity to leave a lasting mark on the Supreme Court.
"Instability in Venezuela is the real risk, because that could have a dramatic impact on global oil supplies, " said Mark Jones, a Venezuela expert at Rice University.
Whatever your tipple, the festive season is the one time when we have a genuine reason to splash out on that special bottle to mark the end of year and celebrate with a swathe of parties, dinner and drinks.
Villa were beginning to play without inhibition and, on the hour-mark, felt they should have had a penalty when Agbonlahor was felled after out-pacing Vidic on the left, although replays suggested Vidic won the ball.
How much freedom does he have to stamp his own mark on such a well-known show?
It is monochrome, with an extremely subtle pattern, and does not have a mark translating as "valuable Ding bowl" stamped on the bottom, making it look like a bowl found in Pottery Barn (and more commonly found at yard sales).
On a day to day basis they have to mark to market and send (or receive) money to reflect those price changes.
"I think whatever expertise Lloyds and HBOS might have in investment banking it would not be enough to make a mark on that part of the market, " adds Hunter.
It was just earlier this year that Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg looked like he was about to have a meltdown on stage while being interviewed at the Dow Jones D8 Conference in June.
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Second, the fact that the leaders of the major Jewish organizations -- almost all located in New York - have not seen fit to stand up for Wiesenfeld is a mark of shame on all of them.
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An impending strike would have a profound effect on what is seen on TV, says TV Guide columnist Mark Schwed.
Mark Henry narrowly failed to gather a kick that could have put the Reds on the board and instead Westerman was instrumental again when his perfectly timed pass put Tickle in under the posts.
Aberdeen may already have secured their Scottish Premier League status but manager Mark McGhee was keen to end a disappointing campaign on a high.
But he is a crafty, old-style politician, and this week he may yet have made his mark on Brazilian history albeit much as, on grand buildings like the Planalto, roosting pigeons make theirs.
And at a conference on Wednesday, Zynga chief Mark Pincus said that by the company would have 400 of its 1, 300 employees focused on creating new intellectual property by the end of the quarter.
Mark Hanafin, managing director of Centrica Energy, said the tax hike "could have a chilling impact on future investment in the North Sea".
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The writer-director team of Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have made a mesmerizing chronicle of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, centered on the obsessive drive of a C.
The Riddler would have tattoos on his body of symbols and information about his bombs etc (and perhaps a question-mark tattoo around one eye?), all in cyphers and code that nobody but the Riddler can ever understand.
He wants to raise the pass mark on the police entrance exam, introduce annual testing and a requirement that all new recruits have three A-levels.
Barca could also have snatched a victory, but David Villa missed a golden opportunity to mark his 100th first-team appearance after coming on as a substitute.
New young designers have also made their mark on the trends as they incorporate innovation in order to stand out and break into a competitive and crowded market.
Since Mark Foley left Congress in a sex scandal earlier this month, gay Republicans on Capitol Hill have been the subject of unwanted scrutiny from activists on the left and on the right.
His supernatural bursts of light as a tool of revelation not only inspired generations of later painters, but in the 20th century have an indelible mark on cinema, from Italian neo-realism to today.
After netting at least three goals in their first seven games, the Lightning have failed to reach the mark during their losing streak that started with a 3-2 home defeat to the Rangers on Feb. 2.
Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) and Mark Warner (D-Virginia) and a handful of others, for example, have launched laudable work on this count in the Senate, pulling together small, quiet dinners with legislators from both sides of the aisle who are strong in principles but equally strong in their commitment to moving the ball forward for the country.
The actions of Mark Bingham and other passengers on flight 93 have called into question the traditional rules in the event of a hijacking.
It is a mark of how bad the graft is now that some otherwise good candidates have been rendered ineligible by their own incontinence on expenses.
If they had other jobs on the side, which say paid them an extra hundred thousand pounds, I would have a question mark in my mind, as to whether they were really working for me and I notice that that is one of your recommendations about outside work, and I think that that's something genuinely we should look at.
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