Word: brashness
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...famous flair for amusing metaphor and clever one-liners—the legacy of decades leading church sermons, protest marches and political campaigns—kept Sharpton agile during a barrage of tough questions from his equally brash interviewer, with whom he joked during commercial breaks...
This bold change in American policy has been met with trepidation and concern about brash use of force. But the U.S. would not have needed to resort to force had Iraq disarmed or had the international community been willing to help combat this clear threat. U.N. refusal to acknowledge the threat did not diminish it; U.S. action...
...That brash spirit is most evident today at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie, where Shepard was enrolled. Few students remember him personally. Optimism, not residual fear, prevails in the busy campus gay group, Spectrum. Abra Soule, 20, has been out as a bisexual since high school in Rock Springs, Wyo. After another girl outed her, Soule, then just 15, didn't try to hide. "And that actually helped... I just stated it and said, 'Yeah, this is who I am.'" She was never threatened. In fact, there was something of a school-wide shrug: many kids told...
...Deutsche Bank is supporting Ackermann's stance, and others have defended him - including Germany's Finance Minister, Hans Eichel. "Herr Ackermann has our full confidence," Eichel told reporters. Although not directly connected to his bank job, the Mannesmann case typifies the head-on collision between Ackermann's brash style of management and the bank's more cautious German approach. Ackermann, who is Swiss, is the first non-German to head the bank in its 133-year history. He has aimed to make it function more like an American or British financial institution, moving away from Germany's traditional reliance...
...really want hoards of tourists—for pleasure or on do-good missions—arriving? While in general I heartily support international travel and certainly greater tourism in Bosnia would be helpful to the economy, I cannot help but want to protect this place from the brash self-centered voyeurism that tourists of all nationalities tend to carry...