Word: bullyboy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annoying me. It's like being interviewed by the biggest snotty bullyboy in the world...
...from Morse code into Gregg shorthand, but I don't think that has much to do with his having grown up on the Plains. After all, Senator Arlen Specter was also raised right there in Russell, Kansas, and when Specter reflects on some incidents in his life--say, his bullyboy cross-examination of Anita Hill--he must suspect that he might have been overburdened with the gift...
...pots and all the kettles are black. Viacom had a point when it sued Malone last week, accusing him of "bullyboy" monopolism (Malone not only is the country's largest cable-system operator, but owns significant chunks of a dozen basic cable channels, and with Paramount would get half the USA Network). But Viacom enjoys a pretty monopolistic lock on the music-video business with...
...chasm that has opened between Clinton and the men and women who cover him is explained by more than the White House mistakes and the press's bullyboy tendencies. For one thing, this President and his young staff don't really seem to like journalists very much. On election night a photographer asked campaign strategist James Carville to move slightly so he could get a shot of the victor. Carville refused and later bragged that since the Clintonites had won the election, they "didn't need the press anymore." That feeling was apparently shared by others. Practically the first thing...
...Fidel Castro just as Marti battled Spain to free Cuba a century ago. Miami millionaire Jorge Mas Canosa is perhaps the most influential Cuban outside Havana. Over the past decade, he has built the Cuban American National Foundation, a lobby group representing Miami's Cuban exiles, into a muscular bullyboy capable of swaying U.S. foreign policy and pressuring governments from Moscow to Mexico City...