Word: brashly
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...able to secure. Amid national affluence, and with such a large electoral buffer, Clark should be unassailable. But she's not. Far from it. Labour finds itself neck and neck in the polls in a two-horse race with a revitalized National, under the leadership of political novice Don Brash, a former governor of the country's Reserve Bank. Are people ungrateful, or has Labour reached its use-by date? It may simply be that New Zealand politics is becoming a more unpredictable game or, as Deputy P.M. and Finance Minister Michael Cullen argues, that Kiwis now expect a larger...
...Cullen has been sounding like a scrooge during the campaign, trying to protect the surplus at all costs, worrying about rising oil prices, a strong dollar and a scary current account deficit. But Brash is feeding the instinct for immediate gratification, although he is using the language of incentive, hard work and aspiration to sell it. National is promising large tax cuts across the board, with a plan that would see 85% of taxpayers charged a marginal rate of 19? in the dollar or less. Despite the output and jobs growth, real earnings have remained flat for the past five...
...sounds great that nobody should be treated differently," says writer Oscar Kightley of the Brash prescription. "But (in the past year) I'm also hearing a lot more things, racist stuff, on the street from ordinary people. That talk used to be confined to extremists on talkback radio." Kightley, of Samoan heritage, is one of the creators of bro'Town, a satirical animated sitcom set in Auckland. The show's characters are mainly Pacific Islanders and Maori - who together make up 22% of the population and growing. "As any parent says, you're only as happy as your saddest child...
...ubiquitous on buses in Shanghai and other metro areas, as are its television commercials and online ads as well as other, quirkier promotions. At many popular karaoke bars in Shanghai, for example, customers get an hour of singing and drinking for free if they register as eBay users. The brash Ma mocks these efforts, claiming he canceled his marketing budget in the first half of this year when he discovered how much eBay was spending, figuring that "their ads were just expanding the e-commerce pie for everybody...
...Young, brash and full of unabashedly liberal ideas, Toney Anaya was considered one of the Democratic Party's brightest lights in 1982 after he won the Governor's seat by a landslide in conservative New Mexico. Anaya, now 44, immediately presented the legislature with sweeping plans for educational innovations, prison reform and economic development geared to high-tech industries. As the nation's only Hispanic Governor, he spoke out frequently on minority issues, and was known to entertain dreams of someday winning a Cabinet position, perhaps even the vice presidency. "My political options in New Mexico are limited," said Anaya...