Word: charme
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...charm offensive (invite them to the ranch?) will help, but it won?t heal the political rifts waiting to crack open. Here is a short list, which together constitute your second, more serious problem: National Missile Defense (NMD), U.S. troops in Bosnia, aid to Russia, Iran-Iraq sanctions plus sundry trade conflicts (e.g., over subsidies for the new monster Airbus that may do in Boeing's 747). These items galvanize the worst fears of the Europeans. They have a single name: American unilateralism. Nor should their alarm be shrugged off as routine babble of the smaller denizens of the international...
...remarkable person, and his persuasive charm, talents, and moral commitment helped to convince Presidents and Prime Ministers and key legislators around the world to support debt cancellation, a process which is now underway for a couple of dozen of the world's poorest countries. He's also an amazing musical talent," Sachs wrote in an e-mail...
...wonder, that George W. Bush, only days into the job, seemed, well, amazingly "presidential." He seemed smart enough not only to get through the first week of the presidency without being arrested for DWI or moronic diction, but to move into power rather deftly. The papers called it a charm offensive, and they weren't being sarcastic; the charm was working. Ted Kennedy, of all people, said nice things. He warned Democrats not to underestimate...
...actual Ned Kelly, who was hanged for murder in 1880, left behind some papers, and Carey has seamlessly grafted his fictional additions onto the existing historical records. But the power and charm of True History arise not from fidelity to facts but rather from the voice Carey invents for Ned Kelly, the son of Irish parents (his father a transported criminal), barely educated by a British schoolmaster who thought that "all micks was a notch beneath the cattle." Like most criminals, Ned believes he is innocent, that whatever wrongs he committed were acts of self-defense against an unjust society...
Cassandra, as our friends and my relatives are always eager to point out, is far better looking than I, and would certainly get an 8 or 9. Then we'd all learn a valuable lesson about vanity, shallowness and the fact that I, through wit and charm alone, landed a smoking-hot girlfriend...