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BushNoun1. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches. 2. A large wilderness area. 3. Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes. 4. 43rd President of the United States. 5. United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974). 6. Vice President under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (1924- ). 7. Hair growing in the pubic area. Verb1. Provide with a bushing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bush" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Bible | Bush in which Jehovah appeared to Moses in the wilderness (Ex. 3:2; Acts 7:30). It is difficult to say what particular kind of plant or bush is here meant. Probably it was the mimosa or acacia. The words "in the bush" in Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37, mean "in the passage or paragraph on the bush;" i.e., in Ex. 3. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | All types of forest or woodland, with particular reference to untended, indigenous forest. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Annular piece of accurate size fitted below the feeder spout and through which the glass flows. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Bush One beats the bush, but another has the hare, i.e. one does the work, but another reaps the profit. The Latins said, Sic vos non vobis. The allusion is to beating the bush to start game. (See Beating .) Good wine needs no bush. A good article will make itself known without being puffed. The booths in fairs used to be dressed with ivy, to indicate that wine was sold there, ivy being sacred to Bacchus. An ivy-bush was once the common sign of taverns, and especially of private houses where beer or wine could be obtained by travellers. In France, a peasant who sells his vineyard has to put a green bush over his door. The proverb is Latin, and shows that the Romans introduced the custom into Europe. "Vino vendibili hedera non opus est" (Columella). It was also common to France. "Au vin qui se vend bien, il ne faut point de lierre." "If it be true that good wine needs no bush, `tis true that a good play needs no prologue." Shakespeare: As You Like It (Epilogue). To take to the bush. To become bushrangers, like runaway convicts who live by plunder. The bush in this case means what the Dutch call bosch, the uncleared land as opposed to towns and clearings. "Everything being much cheaper in Toronto than away in the bush."- Geikie: Life in the Woods. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A fully cylindrical bearing bush. It is generally made entirely of bearing metal, such as ordinary bronze, phosphor-bronze or soft cast iron, without lining. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Hollow cylinder designed to receive a pin. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Unknown. Definition: Infantry term for the field or area of operations. Context: . Social Source: Military Personnel. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Several Americans' family names are Bush. Most of them politicians, or their relatives:
See also:
- Bush -- U.S. President George W. Bush
- Bush -- former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush, father of the current president
- Bush -- First Lady Laura Welch Bush
- Bush -- American scientist Vannevar Bush
- Bush -- American senator and financier Prescott Bush
- Bush -- American governor John Ellis 'Jeb' Bush
- bush -- a kind of plant (see shrub)
- bush -- the outback of Australia (generally the non-urban parts of the landscape), or rainforest in New Zealand. Compare Alaskan Bush.
- Bush (band), a popular rock band.
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Bush is a grunge band formed in 1991. Their debut was a self-released EP named Sixteen Stone; it was issued as an LP in the spring of 1993.
Members
- David Parsons
- Robin Goodridge
- Sacha Putnam
- Christopher Traynor
- Gavin Rossdale
Discography
- Sixteen Stone - EP (1993)
- Sixteen Stone - LP (1994)
- Razorblade Suitcase (1996)
- Deconstructed (1997)
- The Science of Things (1999)
- The Golden State (2001)
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Bush is a village located in Williamson County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 257.Geography
Bush is located at 37°50'29" North, 89°7'56" West (37.841286, -89.132199)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.2 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.2 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and 2.13% is water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 257 people, 110 households, and 78 families residing in the village. The population density is 215.7/km² (558.0/mi²). There are 116 housing units at an average density of 97.4/km² (251.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 98.83% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.39% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.78% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 110 households out of which 26.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.2% are married couples living together, 16.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.2% are non-families. 27.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.34 and the average family size is 2.75. In the village the population is spread out with 23.7% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 26.1% from 45 to 64, and 15.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 100.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 104.2 males. The median income for a household in the village is $14,821, and the median income for a family is $28,333. Males have a median income of $30,313 versus $12,917 for females. The per capita income for the village is $11,503. 38.1% of the population and 31.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 62.5% are under the age of 18 and 10.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bush, Illinois."
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George H. W. Bush Order: 41st President Term of Office: January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993 Predecessor: Ronald Reagan Successor: Bill Clinton Date of Birth: Thursday, June 12, 1924 Place of Birth: Milton, Massachusetts First Lady: Barbara Pierce Profession: businessman Political Party: Republican Vice President: Dan Quayle Nicknames: "Poppy," "41" George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st (1989-1993) President of the United States. Previously, he served as director of the CIA in 1976, and the 43rd Vice President of the United States under President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989).
His son, George W. Bush, is the 43rd President of the United States. As a result George H. W. Bush is sometimes referred to as "the Elder Bush", "Bush the Elder", "Bush Senior" (incorrectly), "Bush 41", or "the first President Bush" in order to avoid possible confusion between his presidency and that of his son.
Personal background
George Bush's father, Prescott Bush, served as a Senator from Connecticut.
George Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he demonstrated early leadership, captaining the baseball team. Here he learned of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and after graduating in June, 1942, he joined the US Navy.
He was a naval aviator during World War II, the youngest ever at that time, and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service in the Pacific Theater.
After the War he attended Yale University, and was inducted into the secret society (essentially a fraternity) Skull and Bones, helping him to build friendships and political support.
He married Barbara Pierce on January 6, 1945. Their marriage produced 6 children, George W, Robin (died of leukemia at the age of 3), John (Jeb), Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy. His family has built on his and his father's political successes with his son George W. Bush's Governorship of Texas and subsequent election as President, and his son Jeb Bush's election as Governor of Florida. The Bush political dynasty has been compared to that of John Adams and the Kennedy family.
Bush ventured into the Texas oil business after the war, with mixed results. He secured a position with Dresser through his father's investment banking relationship with the company. His son, Neil Mallon Bush, is named after his employer at Dresser, Neil Mallon, a close family friend.
In 1964, Bush ventured into conventional politics by unsuccessfully running against Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, making an issue of Yarborough's vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which almost all Southern politicians opposed. He was later elected in 1966 and 1968 to the House of Representatives from the 7th District of Texas. He later lost his second attempt at a Senate seat in 1970 to Democrat Lloyd Bentsen who defeated the incumbent Yarborough in the Democratic primary. He served as US Ambassador to the United Nations, US Envoy to communist China, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and on the executive board of the Committee on the Present Danger.
In 1980, Bush ran for President, losing in the Republican Party primaries to Ronald Reagan, the former Governor of California. Reagan selected Bush as his running mate and Vice Presidential candidate on the Republican Presidential ticket of 1980, and they went on to win. Reagan needed Bush to strengthen his tough stance on the Soviet Union, that Reagan earned from a speech at the 1976 Republican Convention. Bush had been many things Reagan had not been, a military man, a life-long Republican, and an internationalist with UN, CIA and China experience. Reagan had started life a Democrat, had not fought in World War II, and headed the Actors' Labor union, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).
The Reagan/Bush ticket won again in 1984, against the Democrats' Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro ticket. In 1988, after 8 years as Vice President, Bush ran for President with the little known Senator Dan Quayle as his running mate and beat Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen, 426 to 111 electoral votes. (Lloyd Bentsen received one.)
During his second term as Vice President, Bush had the distinction of becoming the first Vice President to become Acting President when, on July 13, 1985, President Reagan underwent surgery to remove cancerous polyps from his colon. Bush served as Acting President for approximately 8 hours, during which time he is reported to have spent most of the time playing tennis.
Presidency
As President of the United States, George Bush is perhaps best known for leading the United Nations coalition in the 1990-1991 Gulf War. In 1990, led by Saddam Hussein, Iraq invaded its oil-rich neighbor to the south, Kuwait. The broad coalition sought to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait and ensure that Iraq did not invade Saudi Arabia. President Bush's popularity rating in America soared during and immediately after the successful military operations, but later fell due to an economic recession.
A mild economic recession from July 1990 to March 1991 was a contributing factor to his defeat in the 1992 Presidential election. Several other factors were key in his defeat, including siding with Congressional Democrats in 1990 to raise taxes despite his famous "read my lips" pledge not to institute any new taxes. In doing so, Bush alienated many members of his conservative base, losing their support for his re-election. Another major factor, which may have helped Bill Clinton defeat Bush in the 1992 election was the candidacy of Ross Perot. Perot won 19% of the popular vote, and Clinton, still a largely unknown quantity in American politics, won the election.
After losing the election, Bush has retired from public life. After retiring, he did, however, notably parachute from an airplane for the first time since World War II. The Bushes live in Houston, Texas and their summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine.
The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum is located on the Southwest corner of the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas.
The tenth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier will be named USS George H. W. Bush when it is launched in 2009.
George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas was renamed after the former president in 1997.
Major legislation signed
Major legislation vetoed
Supreme Court appointments
- David Hackett Souter - 1990
- Clarence Thomas - 1991
Related articles
- U.S. presidential election, 1980
- U.S. presidential election, 1984
- U.S. presidential election, 1988
- U.S. presidential election, 1992
- George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas
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Ronald ReaganPresidents of the United States Succeeded by:
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George W. Bush Order: 43rd President Term of Office: January 20, 2001–present Predecessor: Bill Clinton Date of Birth: Saturday, July 6, 1946 Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut First Lady: Laura Welch Bush Profession: Businessman Political Party: Republican Vice President: Richard Bruce Cheney Nicknames: Dubya, 43, Junior, Shrub George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. Immediately before becoming President, he was Governor of Texas.
The name George W. Bush is commonly used (and the nicknames "Bush 43", "W.", and "Dubya" are used) to distinguish him from his father, George H. W. Bush, who was the 41st President of the United States. (Derogatory nicknames for George W. Bush include "Shrub", "Bush II", and "King George".)
Personal Life and Education
Bush was born in Connecticut and grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He has four younger siblings: Jeb, Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy. A younger sister, Robin, died of leukemia in 1953 at the age of three.
George Jr. followed his father and grandfather in education at Phillips Academy and Yale University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1968 and where he joined Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Skull and Bones Society. He then received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School. He is the first president with an MBA degree.
Bush enrolled in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, and served as an F-102 pilot until being grounded after failing to appear for a mandatory physical exam and drug test. Controversy exists over whether he broke the law by going absent without leave (AWOL). Bush insists that he served as a pilot during his entire tour of duty, but no supporting documents have been made available.
Bush had serious problems with alcohol for years after college, including a drunk driving arrest in Maine in 1976. Allegations of past cocaine use have been widely circulated. Bush himself has refused to comment on any past history of drug use.
Bush married Laura Welch in 1977. In 1986, he forswore alcohol and became a born-again Christian, converting from Episcopalian Christianity to his wife's denomination, Methodism. They have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna.
See also Bush political family.
Business and Political Career
Bush began his career in the oil industry in 1975 when he formed the oil and gas exploration company Arbusto Energy and continued working in the energy industry until 1986. His forays into the industry were disastrous, losing millions of dollars.
In 1978 Bush ran for the House of Representatives and was defeated by the Democratic State Senator Kent Hance.
After working on his father's successful 1988 presidential campaign, he assembled a group of partners from his father's close friends and purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989.
Bush was involved in controversial stock trades while serving on the board of directors of Harken Energy Corp. in 1990. Bush has claimed that he sold Harken stock on the assumption of a positive corporate outlook. However, on April 20 of that year, company President Mikel D. Faulkner told the directors that the company was facing grave financial problems, including a serious cash crisis that was exacerbated by pressure from lenders, as well as a slumping oil market. After receiving this dire news, in June Bush sold 212,140 shares of Harken stock. Shortly thereafter, on August 20, Harken reported a $23.2 million quarterly loss. Bush waited 36 weeks to file an SEC form about his sale. An SEC investigation, conducted while Bush's father was President of the United States, declared "the investigation has been terminated as to the conduct of Mr. Bush, and that, at this time, no enforcement action is contemplated with respect to him." but the investigation's termination "must in no way be construed as indicating that the party has been exonerated or that no action may ultimately result." As President, Bush has refused to authorize the SEC to release its full report on the investigation. When reporters asked Bush about his Harken activities, he told them that they "need to look back on the director's minutes", although this would in fact be impossible because Harken has declined to release its board records ever since questions were first raised concerning Bush's activities there.
The sale of Harken stock helped pay off a loan for his purchase of a partial interest in the Texas Rangers. He served as managing general partner of the Rangers until he was elected Governor of Texas on November 8, 1994 over incumbent Ann Richards. When the team was sold in 1998, Bush had earned $15,000,000.
He went on to become the first Texas governor to be elected to consecutive four-year terms. His tenure in office featured a reputation for bipartisan leadership, and some controversy, even international controversy. During Bush's tenure, Texas saw a sharp rise in capital punishment.
Bush became President on January 20, 2001, as the winner of one of the closest general elections in American history -- defeating Democratic Vice President Al Gore by only five electoral votes, while receiving fewer popular votes. (Until then, the most recent election in which a candidate lost the popular vote and won the election was in 1888.) The election results were hotly contested by Gore for several weeks, and are still disputed by some (see U.S. presidential election, 2000).
As the son of George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush is the second U.S. President to be the son of a President. The first was John Quincy Adams (the sixth President), who was the son of John Adams (the second President).
Public Image and Personality
According to some reports, George W. Bush's nickname with his family and close friends is "Junior" since he is the eldest son of George H.W. Bush. George W. Bush is also known for his like of nicknames and his practice of bestowing others with them.
Bush himself bestows nicknames on nearly everyone he meets. The best known nickname is probably "Pootie-Poot", bestowed by Bush on Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. Another reported example was one given to Jean Chrétien, prime minister of Canada, is reputedly "Dino" (short for "Dinosaur"). This flippancy sometimes is picked up by others and is purported to occasionally backfire either on Bush or on them.
Questions about the intelligence of major candidates also became an issue during the 2000 election. Bush and Al Gore were both ridiculed with collections of assorted oddities. Some have attempted to compare their current respective intellectual capacities by going decades back to their academic achievements. According to that criterion, Bush's academic record and background was by and large comparable to Gore's. For example, Bush's verbal SAT score was 566, Al Gore's was 625. In addition, Gore received lower grades in his second year at Harvard University than any semester recorded on Bush's transcript from Yale, and Gore earned no degrees higher than a Bachelor of Arts in Government (Gore having flunked out of graduate school twice), while Bush earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard. However, neither the correlation between SAT verbal scores and academic excellence, nor between academic excellence and intelligence, can be established; for example, Rhodes Scholar Bill Bradley's verbal SAT was a low 485, and an academic record does not take into account the difficulty of the classes taken or other factors that might impinge on a college record.
Popularity
Following the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks, President Bush enjoyed the highest approval ratings in history, upwards of 90 percent, according to most polls. High approval ratings are historically common for war-time Presidents, but Bush was able to maintain his high approval ratings a year later and, as of November 2002, had the highest approval rating of any President during a mid-term election, since Dwight Eisenhower. The polls were not universally favorable, however, and at least one poll showed that only a minority of the electorate would vote to re-elect him in 2004. Polls conducted during 2003 showed similar results, leading both Democratic and Republican pollsters to believe that his campaign for re-election could be as competitive as the 2000 race was.
In the 2002 mid-term elections, the Republican Party retook control of the U.S. Senate and added to their majority in the House of Representatives, bucking the historic trend. Historically, the party in the White House loses seats in the mid-term elections. It marked just the third time since the Civil War that the party in control of the White House gained seats in both houses of Congress in a mid-term election (others were 1902 and 1934). Some have suggested that the historic victory was due to Bush's popularity and his heavy campaigning for Republicans in numerous close races. However, others have argued that the Democrats lost seats in the election because of their timidity in criticizing Bush as a popular "war-time" President.
In 2003, Bush's approval ratings continued their slow descent from the 2001 highs. By late 2003, his approval numbers were in the low to middle 50's, around the lows of his Presidency. Nevertheless, his numbers were still historically solid for the third year of a Presidency, when the President's opponents typically begin their campaigns in earnest. Most polls tied the decline to growing concern over the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq and the economy's slow recovery from the 2001 recession.
A graphical summary of the trend of Bush's poll numbers can be seen at [1].
Platform
Main article: George W. Bush's 2000 Election Platform
September 11, 2001 radically modified his policy goals after the election.
Foreign policy
Bush's most significant foreign policy platform before coming to office involved support of a stronger economic and political relationship with Latin America, in particular Mexico, and a reduction in involvement in "nation-building" and other small-scale military engagements.
Bush's decision to impose a tariff on imported steel (ruled illegal by the W.T.O in November 2003, and withdrawn the following month), and to withdraw from global initiatives such as the Kyoto Protocol, ABM Treaty, an international land mine treaty and other multinational efforts, have convinced many that he (and his administration) has a policy of acting unilaterally, thus evading international responsibilities. Bush has justified these policies by arguing that these actions are in America's best interest. He has asserted, for example, that the Kyoto Protocol is "unfair and ineffective" because it would exempt 80 percent of the world and "cause serious harm to the U.S. economy."
Many governments have expressed their concern and dismay at what they see as a failure to ratify what they consider to be a key international environmental treaty and many nations (including the composite national grouping, the EU) are actively considering imposing sanctions against the US. However, blaming Bush for a failure to ratify may be rather off the mark. In 1997, the US Senate voted 95-0 that the United States should not become a party to the Kyoto Protocol unless developing nations were subject to scheduled limits or reductions of greenhouse gases. The Kyoto Protocol does not meet those criteria.
A change of focus immediately followed the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. His foreign (and domestic, to a lesser degree) policy was subsequently defined, above all, by the "War on Terrorism". This was first described in a special "Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People" on September 20, 2001 in which Bush announced that America was fighting a war on terrorism.
In July, 2002, Bush cut off $34 million in funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). This funding had been allocated by Congress the previous December. Bush claimed that the UNFPA supported forced abortions and sterilizations in mainland China. His justification came from a bipartisan group of anti-abortion members of Congress and an anti-abortion organization called The Population Research Institute, which claimed to have obtained first-hand video taped evidence from victims of forced abortion and forced sterilization in county where the UNFPA operates in the PRC. The decision was praised by many in pro-life movement, including the United States' largest public policy women's organization, Concerned Women For America.
Abortion-rights supporters criticized the decision and point out that the PRI refused to release information that would allow the team to locate the women, and thus no independent verification of PRI's claims was possible. Nor was it possible to confirm that UNFPA funding was actually behind the abortion and forced sterilizations alleged in the video. However, he sent a fact finding team to the PRC to investigate the situation there, and the team reported that UNFPA funding did not go towards forced abortions or sterilizations. Bush thus disregarded the findings of his own investigatory mission on this matter. See [1] for more information on the PRI.
The Bush presidency has also been marked by diplomatic tensions with the People's Republic of China and North Korea, the latter of which admitted in 2003 to possessing nuclear weapons and threatened to use them if provoked by the US.
Bush has also maintained a desire to resume the peace process in Israel, and openly proclaimed his desire for a Palestinian state to be created before 2005. He outlined a "roadmap for peace" that featuring compromises that had to be made by both sides before Palestinian statehood could become a reality. One particular proposal was his instance for new Palestinian leadership; a stance that saw the appointment of the first ever Palestinian Prime Minister on April 29, 2003.
Military Campaigns
Once the source of the September 11 terrorist attacks was traced to Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network operating out of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Bush launched a military campaign against the country. Though the original intent of the strikes was to destroy terrorist infrastructures and training camps, it soon became clear that Afghanistan's Taliban government was deeply connected to Bin Laden's terrorist organization. On November 13, 2001 American troops seized control of the capital city, Kabul, and overthrew the Taliban government. Exiled President Burhanuddin Rabbani was returned to office, and was soon followed by a special interim government headed by former Afghani territorial governor Hamid Karzai. Diplomatic relations between Afghanistan and the United States resumed, and Karzai became a close ally of Washington in the continued fight against terrorism.
The Bush Administration has been criticized for holding several hundred individuals accused of connections to Al-Qaeda or the Taliban at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba without trial. Under the Geneva Convention, prisoners of war cannot be held after the war has ended. The Bush Administration and its supporters, however, have countered that the war against America by Al-Qaeda is ongoing, that it is unconventional, and that the "battlefield" extends into America itself. George W. Bush is unapologetic about the detentions, labeling the detainees as "enemy combatants" and insisting that their detention is necessary.
The experiences encountered in dealing with the Taliban government inspired a new attitude in the Bush Administration's attitude towards foreign policy. Bush asserted that in America's continuing war against terror, the United States should not differentiate between terrorist groups, and the governments that support them. This view was highlighted in Bush's second State of the Union Address, in which he specifically singled out the nations of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as particularly distressing examples of states that sponsor terrorism, dubbing them an Axis of Evil.
By early 2002 Bush began actively pressing for regime change in the nation of Iraq, indicating that his government had reason to believe that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had ties to terrorist groups and was developing weapons of mass destruction. This proposal was controversial with much of the world, and significant portions of the American public. Upon the advice of Secretary of State Colin Powell Bush agreed to pursue the "UN route" to disarming Iraq. On November 8, 2002 a US-proposed United Nations Security Council was unanimously passed, condemning the Iraqi regime and re-instating a team of UN weapons inspectors. The inspectors did not make any significant finds, but the Bush administration claimed they were being manipulated and deceived by the Iraqi regime. Powell made an appeal to the Security Council, showing photographs and conversations which the administration presented as proof that Iraq's government was engaging in widespread deception. As the Security Council did not react in favour of a military action against Iraq, Bush declared that the Council rendered itself "obsolete".
On March 20, 2003 Bush gave the go ahead for a full-scale military invasion of Iraq to overthrow the Iraqi regime. He did so using powers that had been granted to him by congress on October 16 of the previous year. After a few weeks of fighting, the Iraqi government was successfully overthrown on April 9, 2003 and US forces occupied the Iraqi capital. The military effort has now switched to an effort of maintaining Iraqi security, strengthening the nation's infrastructure, privatizing sectors of industry (notably not oil), and preparing to hand over power to a democratically elected government. As this process shows to be more difficult and expensive than previously predicted the US government turned again toward the UN, asking for financial and military support in Iraq.
Throughout the course of the Iraqi war Bush was often the target of harsh criticism. Both in America and in the rest of the world there were numerous anti-war protests. On February 15 2003 there were over 10 million people in the streets all over the world. Many of the protesters were vehemently critical of Bush, calling him a "warmonger," an oil-hungry "imperialist," a "fascist." Bush dismissed the protesters as being merely "a focus group". European leaders were also critical of the President, especially French President Jacques Chirac who soon became the leading international voice of opposition to the Bush plan of Iraqi regime change. German Justice Minister, Herta Däubler-Gmelin compared the methods of Bush to those of Hitler. These remarks drew strong condemnation from both the United States and Europe; the minister resigned.
There were also in the United States rallies that supported the President's actions in Iraq and also supporting the US and coalition forces. The people who participated in these rallies praised Bush's leadership and courage in confronting Iraq. In stark contrast, however, these rallies were much less attended, in some cases amounting to only a few dozen.
Before the war, polls of Americans themselves tended to indicate a 50/50 split on invading Iraq, with the lowest rankings tending to come from polls that broke the question down into three options -- opposition to the war with or without United Nations weapons inspections, support only if the United Nations agrees and has had adequate time to search for weapons of mass destruction, and unconditional support of the war. After the war began, however, a solid majority of the American people and their representatives in Congress, in striking contrast to international opinion, backed Bush's decision to invade Iraq, with poll numbers ranging from 62% to as high as 70% in favor of the war. The inability of the U.S. to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, however, has led to greater domestic criticism of the administration's Iraq policy.
Domestic Security
Following the September 11 terrorist attacks the Bush administration asked Congress to approve a series of laws that it stated were necessary to prosecute the War on Terror. These included a wide variety of surveillance programs, some of which came under heavy fire from civil libertarians who criticized the Bush administration of scaling back civil liberties.
Bush Security Initiatives
As mentioned, many of these actions were very controversial. Some accused the Bush administration of using the threat of terrorism as an excuse to clamp down on political dissent; indeed, many of Bush's critics were quick to allege that they were being unfairly targeted by the new security measures. Others accused the administration of over-reacting to the threat of terrorism, and participating in Big Brother style tactics with little justification.
- Through an act of Congress, the creation of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a cabinet-level agency designed to streamline and co-ordinate the various agents of federal government bureaucracy charged with protecting the American homeland from foreign attacks.
- A Total Information Awareness (TIA) program was proposed by the Defense Department. The TIA program did not receive funding from Congress, however, and is not currently operating.
- The USA PATRIOT Act which expands the government's powers of surveillance and arrest. The USA PATRIOT act passed soon after September 11, 2001.
- Creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review which will review government acts of domestic spying.
- "Project Lookout", which distributes "watch lists" of people alleged to be suspicious, or have ties to terrorist groups to a variety of different organizations and institutions. These included specific "No-fly" lists of American residents who should not be allowed to board any airport into or out of the United States.
- "Operation TIPS", which would have created a vast network of amateur spies, in which Americans would spy on one another. This proposal was rejected after an initial outcry.
- "NewRuleSets.project", which provides a strategic framework for intervening in countries to move them into the "functioning core" of world societies and out of the "non-integrating gap" from which national security threats arise.
Currently, a major controversy in the United States Congress is the debate over whether or not to expand the Patriot Act into a new Act known as Patriot Act II. This proposal would increase government surveillance on people in the United States suspected of terrorist activities and reduce judicial oversight over surveillance; authorize secret trials; and give the Justice Department the authority to revoke the American citizenship of anyone who belonged to an organization that the government deemed subversive. [1]
These laws are undoubtedly controversial. But many argue that in a world where well-funded, international conspiracies exist with the goal of, for instance, setting off a nuclear weapon in a major American city, the balance between security and liberty must shift somewhat. Supporters of the new law enforcement powers, such as Attorney General John Ashcroft have pointed out that against earlier predictions, nearly two years have passed without a single terrorist atrocity in the United States.
In any event, the debate over the proper role of government in people's lives will continue. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court and lower Federal courts will rule on the constitutionality of the new laws.
Cabinet and Advisors
Main article: the Bush Administration
Among the most prominent cabinet members and Bush advisors are Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Treasury John Snow, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (not cabinet rank), and Attorney General John Ashcroft. Bush also took part in creating the Department of Homeland Security, which is led by Tom Ridge.
Legislation signed
Partial list:
- June 7, 2001: Economic Recovery and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001
- September 18, 2001: Authorization for Use of Military Force
- September 28, 2001: United States-Jordan Free Trade Area Implementation Act
- October 26, 2001: USA PATRIOT Act
- November 28, 2001: Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act
- January 8, 2002: No Child Left Behind Act
- March 9, 2002: Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002
- March 27, 2002: Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
- May 13, 2002: Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
- July 30, 2002: Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
- October 16, 2002: Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002
- November 25, 2002: Homeland Security Act of 2002
- March 11, 2003: Do-Not-Call Implementation Act
- April 30, 2003: PROTECT Act of 2003
- May 27, 2003: United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003
- May 28, 2003: Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003
- September 3, 2003: United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
- September 3, 2003: United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
- November 5, 2003: Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
Related articles
- 2000 Presidential Election
- 2004 Presidential Election
- Bush Doctrine
- Patriot Day
- Bush Family Conspiracy Theory
- VoteToImpeach
External links
Oppositional Bush links
- "History of Bush's political career"
- Negative History of Bush's political career
- bushnews.com - Anti-Bush News Site
- "President Moron" - satire site
- Unofficial Petition For Impeaching Bush
- Smirking Chimp
- Too stupid to be President - satire site
- - On Bush's Foreign Policy
- AWOLBush - examines Bush's military service record
- Reader submissions of nicknames for George W. Bush in a contest on www.talkleft.com
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "George W. Bush."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Australia, the term outback is used to describe the semi-desert interior of the continent. The less arid parts are used for sheep or cattle farming - apart from this, tourism and scattered mining (particularly opal for which Coober Pedy is famous) are the only economic activities in this vast and sparsely settled area.Definitions
Exact definitions of what areas can be considered "part of the Outback" tend to vary depending on the definer. To foreign tourists from more densely populated nations, the outback seems to begin at the city limits of Sydney or the Gold Coast. Australia's rural regions are far more sparsely populated than most other Western countries, and so tourists perceive what locals regard as fairly temperate, well-settled areas as indescribably remote. To residents of rural areas, the outback invariably begins at the next town down the road in the direction away from a major population center.
Population
Over 90% of the Australian population lives in urban settlements on the coastal fringes. Despite this, the outback and the history of its exploration and settlement provides Australians with a mythical backdrop, and stories of swagmen, squatters, outlaws such as Ned Kelly (though Ned Kelly spent virtually all his time in the relatively temperate Great Dividing Range) and so on are central to the national ethos of the country.
The outback is now one of the few places where Australian Aborigines still live in a more or less traditional way. Before European settlement, there were many more tribes along the coast.
Tourism
There are many popular tourist attractions in the outback. These include:
- Alice Springs
- Ayers Rock (Uluru)
- Coober Pedy
- Devils Marbles
- Katherine River Gorge
- Kings Canyon (Watarrka)
- The Olgas (Kata Tjuta)
- The MacDonald Range
- Stockman's Hall of Fame
Historic
The outback is also criss-crossed by numerous historic tracks, roads and highways, including:
- Birdsville Track
- Burke Developmental Road
- Canning Stock Route
- Colson Track
- Connie Sue Highway
- French Line
- Gary Highway
- Gibb River Road
- Gunbarrel Highway
- K1 Line
- Kalumburu Road
- Kidson Track
- Oodnadatta Track
- Peninsula Developmental Road
- Plenty Highway
- Rig Road
- Sandover Highway
- Strzelecki Track
- Tallawana Track
- Tanami Track
- WAA Line
External Links, resources, references
- Photography Galleries
- To see an Australian road train in the outback www.bulldogmarketing.com.au/trucks.htm or /rare.htm these are photos and one is of the 29 Trailer road train which one group of Australian operators put together as a challenge.
Restaurant
Outback Steakhouse is a Restaurant chain in the USA using the Australian outback as the theme. The restaurants are decorated with Australian icons such as boomerangs, pictures of kangaroos, koalas etc. During Christmas season, some restaurants hang their Christmas trees upside down from the ceiling to emphasize their origin from "the land down under".
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Outback."
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A shrub is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 3 meters (10 feet) tall. Smaller, lower shrubs such as lavender or santolina are often classed as sub-shrubs. Non-gardeners may refer to shrubs as 'bushes,' a vaguely dismissive term.
'Shrubs' in garden practice are generally broad-leaved, the smaller conifers being classed as evergreens. In temporate zones shrubs tend to be partly or wholly deciduous.
When clipped as topiary, shrubs generally have dense foliage and many small leafy branches growing close together. Many shrubs respond well to renewal pruning, in which hard cutting back to a 'stool' results in long new canes. Other shrubs respond better to selective pruning to reveal their structure and character.
Common garden shrubs include species, cultivars and hybrids of blueberry (Vaccinium spp.), some honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.), Viburnums, mock-oranges (Philadelphus), privets, barberry, azaleas (Rhododendron spp), lilacs, many willows, witch-hazels (Hamamelis spp.), alders, and broom.
'Shrub' was also a nickname given to George W. Bush.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shrub."
Synonyms: BushSynonyms: chaparral (n), crotch hair (n), pubic hair (n), scrub (n), shrub (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circuit | Lead a pretty dance; beat about the bush; make two bites of a cherry. |
Diffuseness | Digress, ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize. |
Falsehood | Prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose. |
Insanity | Become insane; adj; lose one's senses, lose one's reason, lose one's faculties, lose one's wits; go mad, run mad, lose one's marbles, go crazy, go bonkers, flip one's wig, flip one's lid, flip out, flip one's bush. |
Mariner | Aerial navigator, aeronaut, balloonist, Icarus; aeroplanist, airman, aviator, birdman, man-bird, wizard of the air, aviatrix, flier, pilot, test pilot, glider pilot, bush pilot, navigator, flight attendant, steward, stewardess, crew; astronaut, cosmonaut; parachutist, paratrooper. |
Part | Debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part; sarmentum. |
Plain | Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega. |
Reasoning, | Cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, play fast and loose with the facts, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, parler a tort et a travers, put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on. |
Vegetable | Plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass. |
Bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia. | |
Vindication | Phrase: "honi sot qui mal y pense"; "good wine needs no bush." |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | We only eat things that have actually fallen off a tree or bush - that are, in fact, dead already (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis) Believe me, Donna, ten million at the altar is worth twenty million in the bush! (Three Smart Girls; writing credit: Adele Comandini; Austin Parker) George Bush. (The Dead Zone; writing credit: Aleksandar Djordjevic) Thank you for getting me that date, Mrs. Bush, now all I have to do is figure out how to tell my wife (That's My Bush!; writing credit: Alon Kaplan) I was in the jungle - the bush we called it - for approximately nine months (The In-Laws; writing credit: Andrew Bergman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lost in the Bush (1973) Birds in the Bush (1972) The Burning Bush (1967) Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967) The Bramble Bush (1960) | |
Song Titles | Wuthering Heights (performing artist: Kate Bush) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Vice President Bush with Spacelab Astronauts. Credit: NASA. |  | President George Bush and Apollo 11 Astronauts. Credit: NASA. |
 | "Bush Pilot" taking off with a 727 from the dirt strip at Kotzebue, Alaska A short time after the runway was paved. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Gas stations are few and far between Bush plane operations in Alaska. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Manzanita bush at the base of Iron Mountain Mine along the Spring Creek arm of Keswick Reservoir near Redding, CA. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Indian River Lagoon is in the background of this image. The lagoon is one of the largest lagoons on the east coast of Florida and is prime habitat for Snook and Tarpon. The lagoon waters are estuarine. This image shows Brazilian Pepper stumps to the right of the volunteer's feet. Once the pepper bushes have been cut an herbicide will be applied to kill the bush. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. High bush blueberry - Vaccinium corybosum along the Mashpee Trail at South Cape Beach. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | President George W. Bush. |
 | Pres. Bush at Travis AFB. |  | Quail on watch! He is sitting on a bush found at the Parashant National Monument. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. |
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| "Green bush" by Job Genders Commentary: "A picture of a "bruidsluier" as it is called in dutch. I liked the picture because of its full-color appearance." | "Bush" by Richard Stowers Commentary: "Bush in waikato, new zealand." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Maya Angelou | The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished, and pruned pierces most deeply and draws more blood. |
Sterling W. Sill | Earth is filled with Heaven and on every foot may shine the glory of the burning bush. But only he who sees takes off his shoes. |
William Shakespeare | Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer. |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | When the bush had sunk quite out of our sight, marble steps were seen, leading downwards into darkness |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In winter, the bush was black, wet, bristling, shivering, and let the house be seen in part |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Jumped over a feeny bush as big as a piana |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Pure cocaine was first extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush, which grows primarily in Peru and Bolivia, in the mid-19th century. (references) | |
Business | This was accomplished in July when the alliance, led by President Bush, issued the London Declaration on a transformed NATO. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Angola | In April the Government forced three Portuguese television crews, who were reporting on FLEC-FAC forces in the bush, to leave Cabinda. (references) |
Economic History | Suriname | Thousands of Bush Negroes fled to nearby French Guiana. (references) |
China | Meanwhile, Vice President Bush visited China in May 1982. (references) | |
Political Economy | Latvia | In April 2001, Latvian President Vike-Freiberga became the first Baltic president to meet with President Bush. (references) |
Poland | The Polish government, during the visit of President Bush in June 2001, agreed to grant tariff reductions to a number of affected U.S. industries. (references) | |
JAPAN | In June 2001, President Bush and Prime Minister Koizumi agreed on a Regulatory Reform and Competition Policy Initiative as part of the new U.S.-Japan Economic Partnership for Growth. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bill Maher | Right. That was one of my new rules. Lay off France. At least they're standing up to the Bush administration, which is more than I can say for the Democrats. |
Dennis Miller | The Bush administration has given almost carte blanche to the FBI in way of wiretaps and reading e-mails all under the age old rubric that anyone who isn't doing anything wrong should have nothing to hide. |
House Minority Whip David Bonior | That's not personal. It's taking on the Republican Party and their policies. And, you know, Bush and Cheney are oil folks and, I mean, I think that's a fair thing to go after. |
Jesse Ventura | Well, first of all, President Bush is going to experience the same thing, too. Approval ratings are just the way the wind happens to be blowing that week. And it's very difficult. |
Lynne Cheney | Oh, Laura Bush is just wonderful. I think everyone knows the way in which she's wonderful. She's kind and she's thoughtful. |
Mark Shields | Mr. Card, in the first week of October President Bush became the first Republican president to declare in favor and support of a free Palestinian state. |
Rush Limbaugh | Clinton is out there saying stuff like, Bush and them boys have destroyed everything we built up. |
Tip O'Neill | This has got to be proven to the American people. One of the things the American people love, the way Bush handled, but he's kind of stopped dead. It's gone off the front page. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his half-century of service to America. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Chief Justice Rehnquist, President Carter, President Bush, President Clinton, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, the peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. |
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| "Bush" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 71.91% of the time. "Bush" is used about 3,176 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 71.91% | 2,284 | 3,885 |
| Noun (singular) | 27.59% | 876 | 8,113 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.25% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.22% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,176 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bush" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bush | Last name | 36,000 | 304 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bush". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Kirjath-sannah | N/A | Biblical | Of a blackberry bush |
| Puah | N/A | Biblical | Bush of hair |
| Shamir | N/A | Biblical | Bush |
| Sin | N/A | Biblical | Bush |
| Sinai | N/A | Biblical | A bush |
| Sivan | N/A | Biblical | A bush or thorn |
| Syene | N/A | Biblical | A bush |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Bush Boake Allen Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Bush, IL (village, FIPS 10084) 2. Bush, KY 3. Bush, LA |
Expressions using "bush": a bird in the bush ♦ a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ♦ a bush of hair ♦ american cranberry bush ♦ beach plum bush ♦ bearing bush ♦ beat about the bush ♦ beat around the bush ♦ beauty bush ♦ Benjamin bush ♦ blackberry bush ♦ blueberry bush ♦ boysenberry bush ♦ bramble bush ♦ brittle bush ♦ burning bush ♦ Bush administration ♦ bush baby ♦ bush back ♦ bush bean ♦ Bush Boake Allen ♦ Bush buck ♦ Bush cat ♦ Bush chat ♦ bush clover ♦ bush cow ♦ bush creeper ♦ bush dog ♦ bush fallow ♦ bush fighter ♦ bush fire ♦ Bush goat ♦ bush hammer ♦ Bush harrow ♦ bush hibiscus ♦ bush hog ♦ bush honeysuckle ♦ bush jacket ♦ bush knife ♦ bush lawyer ♦ bush league ♦ bush leaguer ♦ Bush master ♦ bush nasturtium ♦ bush of a bird ♦ bush of hair ♦ bush out ♦ Bush pea ♦ bush pig ♦ bush poppy ♦ bush rat ♦ bush shirt ♦ Bush shrike ♦ bush sickness or Boschziekte ♦ bush telegraph ♦ Bush tit ♦ bush vetch ♦ bush violet ♦ Bush warbler ♦ bush willow ♦ butterfly bush ♦ calico bush ♦ caper bush ♦ centering bush ♦ centring bush ♦ Christmas bush ♦ coca bush ♦ coral bush ♦ coyote bush ♦ cranberry bush ♦ Creosote bush ♦ currant bush ♦ current bush ♦ daisy bush ♦ dewberry bush ♦ dogwood poison bush ♦ eggplant bush ♦ elderberry bush ♦ Ellangowan poison bush ♦ european cranberry bush ♦ feijoa bush ♦ fetter bush ♦ Feura Bush ♦ fever bush ♦ flame bush ♦ flannel bush ♦ flip one's bush ♦ fringe bush ♦ george bush ♦ George Herbert Walker Bush ♦ George W. Bush ♦ George Walker Bush ♦ go bush ♦ good wine needs no bush ♦ gooseberry bush ♦ Grease bush ♦ groundsel bush ♦ guava bush ♦ guide bush ♦ guiding bush ♦ hazel bush. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bush": Bush-aziz, bush-baby, bush-bucks, bush-clearing, Bush-clinton, bush-covered, Bush-delors, bush-drains, Bush-dukakis, bush-fallowing, bush-fighting, bush-fire, Bush-gorbachev, bush-hat, bush-hats, bush-inspired, Bush-kaifu, bush-like, bush-lined, Bush-meets-gorbachev, Bush-quayle, bush-ranger, Bush-reagan, bush-telegraph, bush-walking, bush-whacked, bush-whacker, bush-whacking, bush-work, bush-yeltsin. | |
Ending with "bush": Reagan-bush, rose-bush. | |
Containing "bush": high-bush blueberry, low-bush blueberry. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bush | 7,605 | bush lyrics | 272 |
george w bush | 5,108 | billy bush | 263 |
bush israel | 4,226 | bush dancing | 228 |
rose bush | 1,898 | george w bush picture | 213 |
bush tax cut | 1,217 | jeb bush | 204 |
president bush | 1,079 | bush garden williamsburg | 196 |
bush tax plan | 812 | george bush picture | 196 |
bush furniture | 789 | bush twin | 186 |
bush garden | 773 | flowering bush | 179 |
butterfly bush | 685 | president george w bush | 172 |
kate bush | 634 | bush tax refund | 170 |
hairy bush | 518 | anti bush | 167 |
bush hog | 448 | barbara bush | 163 |
lilac bush | 394 | lauren bush | 158 |
laura bush | 376 | bush joke | 136 |
arpt bush george houston intercontinental tx | 365 | bush picture president | 134 |
bush impeach | 329 | bush garden tampa | 131 |
bush segway | 328 | pine bush ny | 129 |
jenna bush | 328 | president george bush | 127 |
burning bush | 282 | bush lie | 120 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bush"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | struik (shrub). (various references) | |
Albanian | Shkurre (boscage, Heath, moorland, scrub, shrub, Tod), Shkorret (boondocks, Bosk, brushwood, Heath, moor, moorland, shrub, shrubbery, spinney, thicket), Pyll Drizash, Ngastër Me Peme, Kaçubë (scrub, shrub), Ferrëkuqe. (various references) | |
Arabic | حانة (bar, barroom, cabaret, inn, pub, saloon, tavern), اداة للضبط, إعلان (ad, advertisement, advertising, announcement, annunciation, bill, declaration, exploitation, gazette, notification, pitch, placard, poster, proclamation, profession, promulgation, pronunciation, protestation, publicity, sign, spot), أجمة (brake, brush, brushwood, clump, thicket), شجيرة (sapling, shrub), دغل (brushwood, jungle, scrubland, thicket), بطانة معدنية (bushing). (various references) | |
Bavarian | brumbean (blackberry, blackberry bush, bramble). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Обраствам С Храсти, Обширна Област С Девствени Гори, Запалка, Храсталак, Храст, Гилза (Bushing), Втулка (Bushing, Spike), Букса, Шубрак (Underwood). (various references) | |
Chinese | 灌木 (shrub). (various references) | |
Czech | Keř (shrub). (various references) | |
Danish | busk (shrub). (various references) | |
Dutch | struik (shrub), heester (shrub). (various references) | |
Esperanto | arbusto (shrub). (various references) | |
Faeroese | smákjarr (shrub), runnur (shrub), lyngur (heath, shrub). (various references) | |
Farsi | شاخ وبرگ , بوته (Brushwood, Herb, Shrub, Sprig, Underbrush), بته . (various references) | |
Finnish | rinki (boat, bushing, finish, floater, gathering ring, orifice ring, pot ring, ring), pensas (shrub), pensaikko (brushwood, scrubland, thicket), ohjausholkki, laakeriholkki (bushing). (various references) | |
French | arbuste, buisson, bague (Bushing), arbrisseau. (various references) | |
Frisian | strûk (shrub). (various references) | |
German | Strauch (bouquet, shrub), Busch (bunch, jungle, shrub), Buchse (bushing, connector, female, gland, liner, socket), Gebüsch (brush, bushes, scrub, shrub, shrubbery, undergrowth). (various references) | |
Greek | θάμνος (shrub). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יח ׂרבה, ׁנה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bokor (shrub). (various references) | |
Indonesian | semak-semak (brush), semak (brush), menghabiskan tenaga. (various references) | |
Italian | arbusto (shrub), cespuglio (shrub). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 藪 (grove, scrub, thicket), ブチ殺す (book, book band, book cover, book mart, book review, bookend, booker, bookie, booking, bookish, booklet, bookmaker, boutique, Brahms, bridal, bridal bouquet, bridal market, bushman, to kill by hitting). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブッシュ , やぶ (grove, scrub, thicket). (various references) | |
Korean | 수풀. (various references) | |
Manx | immyr correy, immyr chorree, dossey, cur coob ayn, crouw (branch of society, bunch, dwarf tree, Masonic lodge, stick, stock, tributary of river, wide spreading tree), bush. (various references) | |
Mohawk | okwire. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ushbay.(various references) | |
Polish | krzak (shrub). (various references) | |
Portuguese | arbusto (shrub), moita (brush, clump, scrub, tod, tussock, tussock moth), bucha (padding, plug, sleeve, stopgap, stopper, tampion, wad), bosque (boskage, forest, grove, holt, wood, woodland). (various references) | |
Romanian | Tufiş (brush, brushwood, bushes, covert, Grove, scrub, shrubbery, thicket), Tufã (shrub), Teren Necultivat (waste), Huceag (thicket), Hãlãciugã, Copãcel (arbuscle, gently, shrub, steady on), Arbust (shrub), Acoperi Cu Tufişuri. (various references) | |
Romany | hoor. (various references) | |
Russian | Кустарник, Куст, Гильза (Bushing), Втулка (Bushing). (various references) | |
Scottish | preas (a bush, a press, a wrinkle, shrub), dos (a bush, plume, thicket, tuft). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | grm (shrub), žbun (shrub). (various references) | |
Shona | gwenzi. (various references) | |
Spanish | arbusto (arbutus, shrub), matorral (bosket, brake, coppice, copse, scrub, shrub, thicket). (various references) | |
Swedish | Buske (scrub, shrub), bussning (sleeve). (various references) | |
Thai | พุ่มไม้, ช่องคลอด (axe wound, box, chuff, fadge, fur burger, Jack and Danny, muff). (various references) | |
Turkish | Burç (bastion, constellation, dungeon, horoscope, rook, sign, sign of the zodiac, steeple, tower), Zıvana (joggle, liner, mortice, mortise, sleeve, tenon), Gür Saç, Çalıya Benzer Þey, Çalılık Arazi, Çalı (Tod). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чагарник (brush, brushwood, scrub, shrub, shrubbery), Обсажувати Кущами, Кущитися, Кущ, Кропива, Таверна, Боронувати (Harrow), Штовхатися. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bụi cây (brushwood, scrub, shrubbery, thicket), tóc râm biển hàng rượu. (various references) | |
Welsh | twyn (hill, hillock, knoll), twmpath (hillock, tump), prys (Preece, Price, wood), perth (hedge), llwyn (grove, loin). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | frutex. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | junco. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 44 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ekaston gar dendron ek tou idiou karpou ginwsketai ou gar ex akanqwn sullegousin suka oude ek batou trugwsin stafulhn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Unaquaeque enim arbor de fructu suo cognoscitur neque enim de spinis colligunt ficus neque de rubo vindemiant uvam |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ælc treow is be his wæstme oncnawen; Ne hig of þornum ficæppla ne gaderiað: ne winberian on gorste ne nimað; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For euery tre is knowun of his fruyt. And men gaderen not figus of thornes, nethir men gaderen a grape of a buysche of breris. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For every tree is knowen by his frute. Nether of thornes gader men fygges nor of busshes gader they grapes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For every tree is known by its own fruit: for from thorns men do not gather figs, nor from a bramble bush do they gather grapes. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 44 |
| Cebuano | kay ang matag-kahoy maila pinaagi sa iyang bunga. Kay walay mga igos nga anha popoa gikan sa kasampinitan, ni mga parras gikan sa kadyapaan. |
| Croatian | Ta svako se stablo po svom plodu poznaje. S trnja se ne beru smokve niti se s gloga grožðe trga." |
| Danish | Thi hvert Træ kendes på sin egen Frugt; thi man sanker ikke Figener af Torne, ikke heller plukker man Vindruer af en Tornebusk. |
| Dutch | Want ieder boom wordt uit zijn eigen vrucht gekend; want men leest geen vijgen van doornen, en men snijdt geen druif van bramen. |
| Finnish | sillä jokainen puu tunnetaan hedelmästään. Eihän viikunoita koota orjantappuroista, eikä viinirypäleitä korjata orjanruusupensaasta. |
| French | Car chaque arbre se connaît à son fruit. On ne cueille pas des figues sur des épines, et l`on ne vendange pas des raisins sur des ronces. |
| German | Ein jeglicher Baum wird an seiner eigenen Frucht erkannt. Denn man liest nicht Feigen von den Dornen, auch liest man nicht Trauben von den Hecken. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setiap pohon dikenal dari buahnya. Belukar berduri tidak menghasilkan buah ara, dan semak berduri tidak menghasilkan buah anggur. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | sebab tiap-tiap pohon kayu dikenal daripada buahnya sendiri, karena daripada pokok duri tiada orang memetik buah ara, dan daripada semak duri tiada orang memetik buah anggur. |
| Italian | Ogni albero infatti si riconosce dal suo frutto: non si raccolgono fichi dalle spine, né si vendemmia uva da un rovo. |
| Latvian | Ikvienu koku pazîst no tâ augïiem. Jo no çrkðíiem nesalasa vîìes, un no dadþiem neievâc vînogas. |
| Manx Gaelic | Son ta dy chooilley villey er ny chronnaghey liorish e vess: son cha vel mess y villey figgagh er ny heiy jeh drineyn, ny mess y villey-feeyney jeh thammag-ghress. |
| Maori | Ma ona hua tonu ka mohiotia ai tenei rakau, tenei rakau. E kore hoki e kohia he piki i runga i nga tataramoa, e kore ano e whakaiia he karepe i runga i te tumatakuru. |
| Norwegian | For hvert tre kjennes på sin frukt; en sanker jo ikke fiken av tornebusker, og en plukker ikke vindruer av tornekratt. |
| Rumanian | Cqci orice pom se cunoawte dupq roada lui. Nu se strkng smochine din spini, nici nu se culeg struguri din mqrqcini. |
| Russian | ЙВП ЧУСЛПЕ ДЕТЕЧП РПЪОБЈФУС РП РМПДХ УЧПЕНХ, РПФПНХ ЮФП ОЕ УПВЙТБАФ УНПЛЧ У ФЕТОПЧОЙЛБ Й ОЕ УОЙНБАФ ЧЙОПЗТБДБ У ЛХУФБТОЙЛБ. |
| Shuar | Numisha ni neren nékanui. Tsachikniumiasha kushinkiap Júukchamniaiti. Tura naranmaya shuinia Júukchamniaiti. |
| Spanish | Porque cada árbol es conocido por su fruto; pues no se recogen higos de los espinos, ni tampoco se vendimian uvas de una zarza. |
| Swahili | Watu huutambua mti kutokana na matunda yake. Ni wazi kwamba watu hawachumi tini katika michongoma, wala hawachumi zabibu katika mbigili. |
| Swedish | vart och ett träd kännes ju igen på sin frukt. Icke hämtar man väl fikon ifrån törnen, ej heller skördar man vindruvor av törnbuskar. |
| Uma | Butu nyala kaju ra'inca kalompe' -na hi powua' -na. Wua' ara uma rahopu' ngkai walaa to morui. Wua' anggur uma rahopu' ngkai jilata. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bush": bushbuck, bushbucks, bushed, bushel, busheled, busheler, bushelers, busheling, bushelled, bushelling, bushels, busher, bushers, bushes, bushfire, bushfires, bushgoat, bushgoats, bushido, bushidos, bushier, bushiest, bushily, bushiness, bushinesses, bushing, bushings, bushland, bushlands, bushless, bushlike, bushman, bushmaster, bushmasters, bushmen, bushpig, bushpigs, bushranger, bushrangers, bushranging, bushrangings, bushtit, bushtits, bushwa, bushwah, bushwahs, bushwas, bushwhack, bushwhacked, bushwhacker, bushwhackers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bush": ambush, buttonbush, hagbush, highbush, hobblebush, maybush, rosebush, saltbush, shadbush, snowbush, spicebush, staggerbush, steeplebush, tarbush, thornbush. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bush": ambushed, ambusher, ambushers, ambushes, ambushing, ambushment, ambushments, babushka, babushkas, buttonbushes, hagbushes, hobblebushes, maybushes, rosebushes, saltbushes, shadbushes, snowbushes, spicebushes, staggerbushes, steeplebushes, tarbushes, thornbushes. (additional references) | |
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"Bush" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aush, basho, bauch, besht, Bisch, bish, Bishr, bks, bohs, bosch, Bosha, boshe, bouzah, buch, Buchl, Bucho, budh, buh, buhs, Bukha, Bukht, busch, bushi, Bushra, busht, busi, buso, buth, Buzu, fush, ush, xbus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bush" (pronounced buh"sh) |
| 2 | -uh" sh | push, Tush. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hubs. | |
| Words within the letters "b-h-s-u" | |
-1 letter: bus, hub, sub. | |
-2 letters: sh, uh, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-h-s-u" | |
+1 letter: bhuts, blush, brush, buhls, buhrs, bushy, chubs, habus, shrub, subah. | |
+2 letters: ablush, ambush, bluish, boughs, brughs, brushy, bugsha, bumphs, buqsha, burghs, bushed, bushel, busher, bushes, bushwa, hubris, rhumbs, shrubs, subahs, thumbs. | |
+3 letters: bashful, beauish, beshout, bismuth, blueish, blushed, blusher, blushes, bohunks, brushed, brusher, brushes, brushup, brutish, buckish, bugshas, bullish, bulrush, bunches, buqshas, burnish, bushels, bushers, bushido, bushier, bushily, bushing, bushman, bushmen, bushpig, bushtit, bushwah, bushwas, butches, chabuks, cherubs, cubbish, ephebus, furbish, habitus, hagbush, hagbuts, hubbies, hubbubs, hubcaps, humbles, humbugs, husband, hushaby, jubbahs, jubhahs, kurbash, maybush, phoebus, publish, rhombus, rhumbas, rubbish, sambhur, shrubby, subecho, subhead, sunbath, tarbush, washtub. | |
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