Word: blunts
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...book is blunt, and in person O'Neill can be even more so. Discussing the case for the Iraq war in an interview with TIME, O'Neill, who sat on the National Security Council, says the focus was on Saddam from the early days of the Administration. He offers the most skeptical view of the case for war ever put forward by a top Administration official. "In the 23 months I was there, I never saw anything that I would characterize as evidence of weapons of mass destruction," he told TIME. "There were allegations and assertions by people...
...DIED. MICHAEL STRAIGHT, 87, former publisher of the New Republic and spy for the Soviet Union, whose 1964 confession unmasked Anthony Blunt, part of a ring that included Soviet mole Kim Philby; in Chicago. Recruited while studying at Cambridge University in 1937, Straight worked as a U.S. government economist and claimed the only documents he gave the Soviets were his own economic analyses...
...answer. Realistic people, however, tend to disagree with that. "A strong economy is not going to solve the long-run challenge facing Medicare and Social Security," says Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute. A budget expert who has advised Dean and other Democratic candidates is even more blunt. "I don't know whether he knows better or he just doesn't get it," the adviser says. "I liked the old Howard Dean much better...
...Fox’s banal “The Simple Life” has contributed anything to society, it’s making clear in a blunt way that a cultural divide exists between East Coast types and the “simple” folks of the West, Appalachia, Deep South...
...tape. But in a year when it felt at times as if we had nothing in common anymore, we were united in this hope: that our men and women at arms might soon come safely home, because their job was done. They are the bright, sharp instrument of a blunt policy, and success or failure in a war unlike any in history ultimately rests with them...