Word: boyness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Pressing the flesh in neighboring Woollahra, a sartorially splendid Turnbull can't quite match Hawke at this caper - but boy, tough crowd! Some of the people sipping coffee in the sunshine look miffed to have been approached. "It's a thin line," says Turnbull, "between engaging people and bothering them. I err on the side of respecting privacy." Time up, he bounds across Queen Street to wave down a bus bound for the city. "He's always catching the bus," says a staffer...
...farms are corporate-owned--but they also have to be land managers, soil scientists, hydrologists, veterinarians, mechanics, commodity traders, exterminators, meteorologists and highly sophisticated businessmen. The question is, Why do they need our help when they're doing so well? Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, a former Nebraska farm boy who is running for Senate, put it this way in an interview hours before he announced his resignation: "Congratulations! We celebrate your success. You don't need subsidies anymore...
India, they like to say, is a nation of contrasts, and boy, was that ever true in the past week, with contradictions constantly tugging at the soul of the nation. CEOs of some of the world's biggest companies gathered in New Delhi for the Global Forum of FORTUNE magazine, TIME's sister publication. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson swung through to talk at the Forum with globalization guru Thomas Friedman and to meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to lobby for the U.S.-India nuclear deal, which is at risk of rejection in the Indian Parliament. German Chancellor Angela...
...between the entries are italicized reactions from the elder Wolff, originally a member of the Class of 1973 who also played baseball at Harvard and in the minor leagues. In the 1970s, he published a similarly themed work, “What’s a Nice Harvard Boy Like You Doing in the Bushes...
...nowhere to be found on stage, but Rudy Giuliani's campaign shrewdly rushed to declare victory after Tuesday night's Democratic debate in Philadelphia - chiefly because the former New York mayor emerged as the preferred whipping boy among the seven Democratic rivals...