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• n  the first of a series of actions

• first step
• initiative
• opening

News & Articles

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• Why won't Obama talk with Speaker Boehner? (+video)
  President Obama says he will negotiate 'only after the threat of a government shutdown and default have been removed.' The opening move by GOP hardliners to defund Obamacare polarized negotiations.
  Oct. 9, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor