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  1. prioritize
    assign a status in order of importance or urgency
    And if at the end of 18 months, 24 months there are people who have been cleared, and I would prioritize widows, and orphans, and the elderly, people who may have relatives, families, or have nowhere else to go.
  2. glitch
    a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
    CLINTON: Well, I would certainly build on the successes of the Affordable Care Act and work to fix some of the glitches that you just referenced.
  3. coalition
    the union of diverse things into one body or form or group
    I'm running for president because I want a new foreign policy; one that takes on Isis, one that destroys ISIS, but one that does not get us involved in perpetual warfare in the quagmire of the Middle East but rather works around a major coalition of wealthy and powerful nations supporting Muslim troops on the ground.
  4. deductible
    a clause that relieves responsibility of paying a loss
    But for Americans who already had health insurance the cost has gone up 27 percent in the last five years while deductibles are up 67 percent, health care costs are rising faster than many Americans can manage.
  5. validation
    finding or testing the truth of something
    You joined the Senate in voting to get rid of Gadhafi, and you asked that there be a Security Council validation of that with a resolution.
  6. incarceration
    the state of being imprisoned
    We also reduced incarceration rates to 20-year lows.
  7. entitlement
    right granted by law or contract
    But look, there's one big entitlement we can no longer afford as a country, and that is the entitlement that the super wealthy among us, those earning more than a million dollars, feel that they're entitled to pay lower income tax rates and a far lower preferred income tax rate when it comes to capital gains.
  8. responsiveness
    the quality of reacting quickly
    You know, we can't -- if we're not going to send American troops, which there was never any idea of doing that, then to try to send trainers, to try to send experts, is something we offered, Europeans offered, the U.N. offered, and there wasn't a lot of responsiveness at first.
  9. inequity
    injustice by virtue of not conforming with standards
    We have systemic racism and injustice and inequities in our country and in particular, in our justice system that must be addressed and must be ended.
  10. privatization
    changing something from state to individual ownership
    Social Security, which Republicans call a Ponzi scheme, may face privatization.
  11. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
    I think there is a consensus.
Created on 十二月 20, 2015 (updated 十二月 20, 2015)

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