Word: brashness
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...majority whip in 1994. "They have never liked each other," says TIME's James Carney. "Lott is more conservative and at heart is really a House member who happens to be in the Senate. He belong to the more Gingrich-style Republicans. Cochran is not nearly as conservative or brash as Lott." Dole's unexpected announcement has drastically altered the character of a contest that Lott would have been favored to win. "Everyone expected this contest to be played out in November when the more moderate Republicans, like Nancy Kassebaum and Mark Hatfield, who are not seeking reelection would have...
Mitsubishi's outraged and outsized response to the charges has sensationalized the case. Led by a brash general counsel, Gary Schultz, about 2,000 workers--given the day off for the purpose--demonstrated with supporters outside the Chicago offices of the EEOC last week. "Two, four, six, eight," they chanted, "we're here to set the story straight." "Do we have sex on the line?" one man shouted. "Do we get naked on the line?" "No!" the crowd roared. Some waved placards; others unfurled a long banner that read EEOC PLEASE STOP SLANDERING...
However, the plaintiffs responded that this brash measure would violate the approval that was obtained by the Cambridge Historical Commission for preserving the historic doors...
...Suesse and the other novelty pianists, recognition arrives too late for them to enjoy. Pauline Alpert, who lived out her final days afraid to leave her home on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, died in 1988, Suesse the year before. Still, their brash, high-stepping music lives on, as key a piece of Americana as flappers, bathtub gin and Calvin Coolidge's Indian headdress--and twice as much...
...begins to wear off, partly because users see so many of their friends dead," says James Q. Wilson, the UCLA professor who is one of the nation's most prominent thinkers on crime. That's important, because crack was the great impetus to crime in the late 1980s as brash new dealers muscled in. Another theory is that the trade has simply stabilized into a "mature market," as they say in the business schools, with surviving distributors less likely to clash over territory...