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Nithila Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

What does bolded sentence give meaning ?

With his administration about to reach the symbolic hundred day marker, the president went before the American people with an assessment of the economy.

He said the measures he has put in place in his first months in office are beginning to bear fruit. But he acknowledged 2009 will continue to be a difficult year.

what does colored sentence give  meaning ?
  

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Nithila He said the measures he has put in place in his first months in office are beginning to bear fruit. But he acknowledged 2009 will continue to be a difficult year. A measure could be a law which he's requested Congress to pass, or it could be a policy which he's implemented through executive order.

  • Nithila He said the measures he has put in place in his first months in office are beginning to bear fruit.
  • But he acknowledged 2009 will continue to be a difficult year.
  • A measure could be a law which he's requested Congress to pass, or it could be a policy which he's implemented through executive order.
  • To put a measure in place means some particular plan is now in effect.
  • To begin to bear fruit evokes the image of planting seeds, or a tree, and then seeing that tree begin to produce something useful.
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Nithila He said the measures he has put in place in his first months in office are beginning to bear fruit. But he acknowledged 2009 will continue to be a difficult year.
A measure could be a law which he's requested Congress to pass, or it could be a policy which he's implemented through executiv

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