Word: bullhorns
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...compound sentences, Al Gore would have run away with the debates and the election. Bush's gift of pre-verbal authenticity comes at a time when the most articulate among us have been rendered speechless. Three days after the attack, this man of few words picked up a bullhorn rather than a mike to reach the men of action at ground zero. A few days later, he was criticized for sounding like Dirty Harry channeling Winston Churchill--but his vow to take bin Laden "dead or alive" had an appealing clarity. And last week an impromptu Bush...
...matter anymore. (The attack even brought a reconciliation between Gore and Bill Clinton. The two sat up till dawn talking about it at Clinton's New York home before sharing a military transport plane to D.C.) Bush then traveled to ground zero in downtown Manhattan. He picked up a bullhorn, slung his arm around one rescue worker and spoke to the others--and to the world--with a grace that was both convincing and, somehow, unmistakably American. "The people who knocked down these buildings," he said, "are going to hear all of us soon." He didn't insist that...
message across to the increasing number of guests who think that the best way to get decent service is to operate at bullhorn level and ratchet up the volume from there. "Unfortunately, as a culture we've decided the only way to get what we want is to demand it," says Terpilowski, a veteran hotelier who has run top-rated inns in a number of major cities...
...Friday afternoon The President traveled to New York, visiting rescue workers at the disaster site. "Thank you for your hard work, thank you for making the nation proud," the President told cheering workers. He perched atop a felled firetruck, exhorting workers with the help of a bullhorn...
...rally yesterday, PSLM did not activate its sound equipment, and featured speaker, Boston University historian Howard Zinn, addressed the crowd using a hand-held electronic bullhorn...