Word: cogently
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...writes, "encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant." Nowhere is that more true than in America. How many of that exalted species, the American voter, can coherently explain the difference between the federal deficit and the national debt? How many can formulate a cogent account of why living standards are stagnating...
...really offer a cogent explanation for this gender gap. But this sociological imbalance was duly noted by my friends and me, and we played the gum card (pardon the pun) for all it was worth, finding it a relatively effortless method of currying favor with the females...
...conclude by expressing my concurrence with the cogent and sharp response to this latest racist incident at Harvard that one of our Black undergraduates, Tamara Duckworth '92, made in an interview to The Boston Globe. Duckworth, remarked that--"I consider the language of this [Peninsula] poster to be nothing less than hate speech, and that this kind of racism can be cloaked under the guise of free speech in an outrage." Martin L. Kilson Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government
Doutre says that the current purpose of the Tag Lines is "to provide pithy, cogent comments on today's living conditions, not be controversial or political." He admits, however, that his company receives periodic complaints about certain Tag Lines, particularly those that concern lawyers...
...carefully calculated. "In the first, where some said I was too laid back, it was my intention to have people begin to conceive of me as sitting in the Oval Office," says Clinton. "That required not fighting with the other guys and trying to keep my answers short and cogent." Now, he says, "it's time to change. With everyone hitting me, it's time for hardball, to show that I can stand up. This is especially crucial since you're hearing that I am too cautious." Beating the "too- cautious" rap explains why Clinton's second TV strike...