Word: airtight
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...This will come as a big shock to the Bush camp. The transition team had prided itself on Prussian-style efficiency, and they thought they had an airtight process. Bush did not want to repeat the mistakes of Bill Clinton, whose process was haphazard and full of leaks, and where skeletons in the closet came out to topple nominees. So Bush picked what he thought were solid Republicans, like Powell, Rumsfeld and O'Neill, - and he even includes Ashcroft in this category - who'd been through vetting processes before and could withstand the grind, and there wouldn...
...airtight offensive line, anchored by current Minnesota Vikings center Matt Birk '00, protected the Crimson's skill players...
...much talent on its squad to lose. It has as good a starting rotation as any in baseball with Mike Hampton, Al Leiter, Rick Reed and the new hero of the hour, Bobby J. Jones. And you better pray that you get to the starters because the bullpen is airtight with lefties at every turn...
...timing - preprogammed phrases tend to pop up at unexpected times - and unlike his father, he still needs work on his foreign policy if he's to avoid a daily beating in the New York Times. But after this, the first of the last three Possible Turning Points of this airtight race, the two men seemed eminently, well, comparable. Few supporters seem likely to be disappointed, and few minds seem likely to be changed. Which was all George W. Bush was really going...
Good virtual water coolers turn up in unexpected places. The funeral professionals' discussion board on casketstores.com is oddly riveting, with talk ranging from how to improve public opinion about funeral directors to how to ensure that a casket is airtight. The flight attendants' site on Insidetheweb.com has the feel of a late-night, rear-of-the-plane gabfest, on topics like whether it's O.K. to accept a $100 tip from a passenger (consensus: no) to an attendant's gripping first-person account of her first emergency landing. ("As I strapped myself into my jumpseat, I remember thinking that...