Word: cachet
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...after big goals, including debating an overhaul of Social Security and the other two big entitlement programs, Medicare and Medicaid. Bush has spoken increasingly frankly about his plans to run up the hill on Social Security again, and sources say Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson will use his Wall Street cachet to promote discussion of an issue that had Republicans dashing for the exits last year...
...William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 is fond of repeating, every student at Harvard can do the work. The benefits of the direct approach are twofold. First of all, it should make more money. Hopefully quite a lot more, since the commodity in question has high social cachet, and the bidders, many of whom have more money than they know what to do with, will be in direct competition with each other, and able to increase their bids accordingly. The second benefit is that the University will be in a stronger position to resist earmarks on donations. Many...
...those shiny pieces of electric goodness in a dance-off. Samir J. Paul ’10, a participant in the booty-shaking bonanza, explains why he was willing to put his money maker on the line for an iPod. “The iPod has a cultural cachet that few other MP3 players can even dream of competing with,” he says. And thus the tiny music player lured him to do something that only two others were willing to do. Indeed, Crimson Key undertook the competition for two reasons. “We were trying...
...place to be seen was on the stage of Cambridge's Footlights Club. When Cleese and Chapman entered the Footlights around 1960, it had a glittering comic cachet. That was due largely to Peter Cook, who was a god to the younger members, his monologues passed down by oral tradition in the pre-tape era. David Frost, a Footlights secretary, would soon launch himself as a TV comedy mogul with That Was the Week That Was and The Frost Report, for which he drew on Oxbridge grads, including all five British Pythons, as writers and performers. (Later Footlighters included Emma...
...gone from a backwater strongman to a genuine global player, capitalizing on sky-high oil prices to spread his influence across Latin America and to win attention when he denounces the Bush Administration. That has made Caracas a hot destination for leftist tourists, bolstered Chvez's celebrity cachet--he counts Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte as friends--and made him the most visible Latin leader since Fidel Castro. But his rhetorical excesses, like his antics at the U.N., allow his critics to dismiss him as a buffoonish pretender. It was a sign of how badly his act played...