Word: brasses
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...succeeded. "It's not clear where they came from," said Major General Sergei Makarov, commander on the eastern front. "They just popped up among the civilians." General Victor Kazantsev blamed his troops' "tenderheartedness" and "groundless trust" in Chechen civilians. The response from Moscow made it clear that the top brass had been stung. Defense Minister Sergeyev sniffed that the attacks were "perfidious...
They never thought it'd come to this. In the early days of this election cycle, the GOP's top brass were patting themselves on the back for producing a new Teflon candidate - a man everybody thought would breeze through the primaries unscathed. But by Monday night, wearied by two weeks of hostile six-way debates and faced with a viable challenger in the form of John McCain, George W. Bush was forced to lean on the 11th Commandment of Republican campaigning - don't hurt the party. And thus Bush and McCain staged a minor p.r. coup, shaking hands...
...been tied to the political orientation of the presidents who appointed them, but Greenspan's legendary success in dealing with crises ranging from the 1987 Wall Street crash to the fallout from the 1998-99 Asian financial crisis has made the position more akin to the military's top brass - a nonpartisan, continuous presence as presidential administrations come and go. Although Al Gore, like most other presidential candidates, warmly applauded the appointment, he may have the most to lose if Greenspan does slow the economy. (George Bush Sr. is reported to believe that he lost to Bill Clinton...