Word: churlish
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...What do punches have to look forward to? Shopping, boozefests, and conversations dominated by churlish giggling are the answers gestured to by the punch book...
...FEMA be fixed? Administration officials tell TIME they plan to rework the agency's makeup and responsibilities--and perhaps even change its name to shed the stigma following the Hurricane Katrina fiasco. As Michael Brown, the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, emphasized during his occasionally churlish testimony on Capitol Hill last week, "FEMA does not own fire trucks, ambulances, search-and-rescue equipment." Says James Jay Carafano, an authority on homeland security at the conservative Heritage Foundation: "It's the National Disaster Coordinating Agency. You could probably come up with a sexier name, but that's what...
They are the forgotten partners. It is obvious but often overlooked: for every teenage mother there is a father, usually a teenager who finds himself treated as an outsider, receiving none of the solicitous attention that occasionally attends the mother and child. These fathers are usually depicted as churlish scamps, irresponsible hit-and-run artists out to prove their sexual prowess without a thought for the consequences. Until recently, no one even seemed to factor the father into the situation. But with the surge of concern about teenage mothers, several groups and studies have taken a closer look at teenage...
Although there certainly have been lucky breaks, like the death of Arafat, it seems churlish not to give the Bush Administration some credit for the spread of democracy. Regime change in Iraq has changed the climate in the Middle East by enabling the Iraqi people to defy the insurgency and prove the plausibility of democracy. Even more importantly, Bush shifted away from the U.S.’s previous policy of “pragmatic tolerance” of brutal autocratic regimes, which calcified established political regimes and stillborn reformist efforts. As a foreign policy, cynicism masquerading under the self...
...There is, then, a profitable discussion to be had between "ownership" Republicans and "third-way" Democrats about transforming the stagnant bureaucracies of the Industrial Age. Republicans refused to play during the Clinton presidency; the stunned and churlish Democrats are refusing now. It will be interesting to see whether Bush, at the height of his powers, actually tries to break the impasse...