Word: blunts
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...will have to wrestle with the big issues that are plaguing the whole of German industry, not just its automakers: unit labor costs that are among the highest in the world, productivity that's been overtaken by many rivals and worries about losing its technological edge. In a blunt letter to Mercedes employees announcing the layoffs, Zetsche wrote that "our costs in all parts of the value chain are significantly higher than those of the best competitors" and that the company was dragging around too much production capacity. Becker, the former BMW economist, contends in a book published last month...
...camera focuses on Murrow’s lined face, sternly lecturing us along with his television audience. There is no one else in the frame, no showy camera moves, no soundtrack—nothing to distract us from Strathairn’s understated virtuoso performance and the blunt, sobering words of the script, which Clooney co-wrote...
Almost immediately, it did. A plan engineered by DeLay and Hastert to install complaisant Rules Committee chairman David Dreier as temporary majority leader was nixed by conservatives who dislike Dreier's moderate positions on stem-cell research and gay marriage. Instead the brain trust installed ambitious whip Roy Blunt, who will share some of the majority leader's duties with Dreier. The setup is so shaky that some House Republicans are pressing for the election of a new leadership team as early as January...
...blunt, I believe that novelist George Whyte-Melville had it right when he said that “we always believe that our first Love is our last, and our last Love is our first.” In other words, the notion that you have found “the one” is most likely not true. And while long distance relationships seem feasible in theory, their success rates are dismally...
...earliest days of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, Americans saw, and certainly heard, the bold and blunt style that had made New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin a popular and effective leader in the Crescent City. Nagin's angry calls to "get off your asses" may have shamed the federal government into action, but many of his broadcasts since then-most notably, his controversial decision to let 180,000 residents and business owners back into New Orleans this week, before the approaching Hurricane Rita led him to reconsider-haven't been as well received. His tall, movie star-handsome swagger seems rattled...