Word: chutzpah
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...death penalty was a symbolic issue in the campaign. Koch and the public were for it with a vengeance, while Cuomo was fervently opposed. Voters disagreed with Cuomo but admired his principles and his chutzpah. Cuomo defeated Koch by a comfortable margin and went on to beat Republican Lew Lehrman by a slim one. Defeating Koch was a catharsis for Cuomo; he had come from way behind to upset the man whom he once thought of as his nemesis. Koch today says Cuomo has "been a superb Governor," utilizing his talent for "communication, conciliation and consensus in an unusually successful...
...might read an international cultural festival in the '80s as a bourgeois display in contrast to the urgent intensity of minority students' anti-establishment protests 15 years ago. Still, it has taken that long for minority groups to get together the chutzpah and the funds to throw a party on the scale of the CultFest for the entire community. This says something about the potential of such "cultural" events for changing the face of campus life...
...majority of candidates, however, are evaluated for extracurricular strengths and personal qualities, such as "intellectual curiosity, charisma, and chutzpah," Evans said...
...plot, like Kabuki, has become stylized. Boy with zits and chutzpah lusts after girl with good complexion. Girl becomes infatuated with Vitalis man, who is dumb but fulfills basic elements of the Eisenhowerera American dream...
...excuse for not thinking about what is at the heart of our disagreements." As an example of the Soviets' "one-sided negotiating positions," he cited demands that the U.S. abandon Star Wars "even as they pursue the greatest research program on earth. And then, in a masterpiece of chutzpah, they insist repeatedly that ours is a program designed to acquire a first-strike capability." His key sentence: "Without some change in the Soviet approach to security issues, in fact in the thinking that underlies it, I fear that even incremental improvements will be extremely hard to reach...