Word: callow
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...booms and busts of the Internet economy have taken on an almost seasonal aspect. Callow start-ups--initially apples in venture capitalists' eyes--become in a few short months rotten e-commerce or business-to-business fruit. Portals, community sites, e-commerce companies, business-to-business (B2B) verticals--all are Web sectors once hyped as the next big thing; all are Web sectors in which stock prices have gone off the cliff...
...Texas city built on oil is the starting point for the Bush backstory; the second chapter of his autobiography, written mostly by Hughes, is titled "Midland Values." For those who market Bush, highlighting his Midland roots is a way to counter a competing impression of the man as a callow, underachieving product of a wealthy, East Coast elite. For a candidate short on biography, Midland solves a problem. There's no wartime heroism in Bush's past or a hardscrabble beginning. This is someone who concedes he was something of a mess until he was 40. For Bush's imagemakers...
...startling to remember that , at 54, he is more than a decade older than John Kennedy was in 1960). Cheney signs on as a slightly older retainer, but not as a father figure - he's only 59 - who might make the presidential candidate seem callow. He is what a vice president ought to be - first-rate standby equipment...
...Hizbollah's rallying cries of retaliation and nihilistic hatred. To be sure, in desperate reaction to the Israeli occupation of the South and the major invasions of 1982 and 1996, a number of Lebanese Christians are starting to view Hizbollah as a respectable "resistance" force despite the patently callow and self-serving character of this organization...
...bump could put him within striking distance. If there's no New Hampshire victory or bounce, he's sunk. And even if he does exceptionally well this week, South Carolina could be the impossible dream if only because its Republicans seem so enamored of George Bush--not the callow young Bush running for President but the nostalgia-tinged older Bush who already served. South Carolina gave President Bush his second highest vote percentage in 1992, so when he paid a visit to the postmodern BMW factory near the town of Greer last week, he was introduced as "our hero." Speaker...