Word: cinching
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...formidable obstacle - the brass? view is that near-term threats to U.S. security are too great and too many to risk a rebuilding that would leave forces temporarily inadequate. The restructurers? is that the Pentagon?s current needs assessment - and its two-war requirement, which is a cinch to go in any case - is too lavish for the world of today...
Twenty years ago, I would have done it, probably in the story's first few weeks--a lock, really, a cinch, given all the elements of the story that are ripe for the taking. The amorous Congressman; the enticement of a tale about another Washington intern; sex in the capital city; sex and politics; sex. Or go a little deeper: a story about the impenetrable nature of public lives or of private lives suddenly blasted with publicity and a sidelight into the missing-persons cases that do not draw national attention--a moral lament about that...
...Francisco psychologist and market researcher. ''I'm impressed by how deep it goes into the fabric of this country.'' Says noted theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: ''We are all warned against thinking in terms of trends that correspond with decades, but this one is a cinch. I think that people are going to look back at today as a hinge period in the country's history.'' Some social observers have already dubbed the 1990s the ''We decade...
...should also tell her about the news of the obvious truth. That took me decades to learn. As a young writer, I was the dandiest, cleverest wit and wise guy--a cinch if one possesses the meager gifts. And then after witnessing enough pain and plain courage in the world, I simply reversed course and started writing about the life before my eyes. Eventually one understands that the world is largely made up of obvious truths, lying in the open, begging to be repeated...
...true Bush style, he's not eager to press the hot-buttons - Thompson has avoided beating the drum on divisive issues during four terms in Wisconsin and would appear to have no inclination to start doing so in Washington. He's widely respected and a cinch for confirmation...