Word: approach
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...think that there is another approach. Botswana, after all, is a very successful country. It's a remarkable country. All these difficulties that one finds in many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa actually really don't apply so much to Botswana. Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds. And of course now there's a bit of difficulty with the diamond industry. So they're suffering in Botswana but not to the extent that they're suffering in many other countries in the region...
...analogy of which I have no actual knowledge - namely tightrope walking. I have never walked on a tightrope, and indeed know nothing about it. But I imagine that tightrope walkers don't actually look down while they're doing their thing, they look ahead, which is the sort of approach I take. If you look at what my commitments are, I'm doing either four or five books a year, which is breaking all the rules of publishing. And If I stop to think, "Well my goodness me, what am I going to do," I would fall off the rope...
...used to screaming orders out, and I certainly appreciate that I had to slow down a little bit and talk directly to him. Before he starts to get going, he wants to know, ‘How was your day?’ When somebody has an approach like that, you just can’t help but be impressed...
...also the most politically delicate: taxing employer-provided health benefits. It's an idea that Obama criticized when his opponent John McCain proposed it during last year's presidential campaign, but one that his top White House advisers now say should remain on the table. And it is an approach that Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus says he is considering...
...outshine their high-profile husbands. Other recent First Ladies, such as Hillary Clinton and Argentina's Cristina Kirchner, have used their experiences in the halls of power to launch themselves into political offices of their own. But Veronica Lario, wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has a different approach to this historically supporting part...