Word: blowingly
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...chapter of People for the West, a group whose aim is to open federal lands to ranching and "multiple uses." Balliete is fed up with Washington. "What it all boils down to is, Who controls my life--somebody from back East or someone like me from around here? Joe Blow from the city comes in here to 'preserve' things, and he ends up destroying the culture I grew up with...
Political skullduggeries are as much at home in Louisiana as crawfish or beignets. Few people in New Orleans believe the November contest in which Democrat Mary Landrieu defeated Jenkins by 5,788 votes was, in its execution, a model of civic propriety. But Jenkins' cause was dealt a serious blow last week when Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee walked away from the investigation he demanded after the election. They had learned that Jenkins hired a two-bit gumshoe named Thomas ("Papa Bear") Miller--a New Orleans operative with a long, sometimes violent criminal record. Papa Bear...
Beyond the Beltway, the deal has plenty of detractors who may prove only too happy to provide legislators with the ammunition to blow the proposal to bits. Among the attorneys general, the chief naysayer through most of last week was Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey III, who argued that his colleagues were pushing too quickly for a settlement. (And they in turn accused him of grandstanding.) "They're trying to rush this through before we realize we've had our pockets picked," Humphrey said at midweek. He claimed tobacco could pay more than twice the agreed-upon amount, or some...
...Tung has declared publicly that he will avoid making martyrs of those who protest before some 8,000 journalists staked out on handover night. The Chief Executive and his Beijing superiors are well aware that televised images of repression in the streets of Hong Kong would deal a lethal blow to that ephemeral commodity known as confidence, on which Hong Kong's continued prosperity and stability depend. It is the very evanescence of Hong Kong's assets that makes the transition such a delicate rite of passage...
However, Maskin said, "There is a real risk that he may stay there permanently and that would be a tremendous blow to our department...