Word: brashness
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...been a long road for John Kerry, a long wait for the chance to move up for a man who has been criticized throughout his career for over-ambitiousness. The 40-year-old Kerry looks back a bit forlornly on his "brash youth," as he puts it, recalling, among other missteps, his moves into three different districts to make a congressional...
...Pont, 48, wife of the state's outgoing Governor and chemical fortune heir. Last week Carper won the endorsement of the state's two dailies, the Wilmington News-Journal and the Delaware State News. In New York, Republican Bill Green, 55, continues to hold a lead over brash Democratic Challenger Andrew Stein, 39, in the race to represent Manhattan's prestigious silk-stocking district, though both sides acknowledge that the gap is narrowing. In Mississippi's Delta second district, where State Legislator Robert G. Clark, 55, is making his second try to become the state...
...surge of patriotic feeling. "They have not had disillusioning events in their lives," says Reagan Pollster Richard Wirthlin. Moreover, for all Reagan's talk about old-fashioned values, he frequently exudes a youthful impetuosity of spirit. "The peculiar thing about Reagan is that he is both brash and a preacher of traditional values," says an aide. "He can say, 'You ain't seen nothin' yet' and get away with...
...symptomatic of Kerry's campaign that even his safest proclamations of the liberal creed of morality and care should sound hollow. He has yet to adequately convince voters that he has evolved from his brash days as leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, when he gained a reputation among many as a hollow, unconvincing activist...
...economic consultant for the past 38 years, I am appalled at the damage my peers have done with their erroneous predictions [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Aug. 27]. The blame must lie with the schools of business administration and their brash M.B.A.s. Their ardent embrace of econometrics and the computer has caused them to abandon the philosophical concepts of economics. Business schools should re-examine their precepts before the dismal science disappears...