That Obama, who now appears grounded, motivated, and poised, formerly appeared grounded, motivated, and poised?
French and Prussian armies swarmed over the Austrian (formerly Spanish) Netherlands and were poised for invasion of the United Provinces, which were linked by alliance with England, although they had remained formally neutral.
Construction started six years ago on the new World Trade Center and now the skyscraper, formerly called the Freedom Tower, is poised to surpass the 102-story Empire State Building, Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye told reporters.
NATO, the military organisation that already clasps most of the EU's members together, is poised to expand too, with formerly neutral states as well as ex-Soviet satellites already linked in partnership.The continent as a whole, whatever the disappointments that have followed the fall of communism, is slowly becoming safer, richer and more hopeful.
WorldCom is poised to hire Michael\ Capellas Michael Capellas, formerly of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer, as its new chief executive.
When I called food banks and homeless shelters around the country, most staff members and directors seemed poised to offer press-pleasing tales of formerly middle-class families brought low.
Now with six teams based outside of Russia, the K.H.L., formerly the Russian Superleague, with its origins dating to the Soviet era, is poised to lure more North American, Scandinavian and European talent.
A majority of F.C.C. commissioners are poised to repeal the net-neutrality regulations, but Nicholas Thompson — the editor-in-chief of Wired, and formerly the editor of newyorker.com — tells David Remnick that all hope is not lost.
