Word: colossus
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...whom many Democrats once believed was too incompetent and inarticulate to be president has emerged, in the words of Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory, as “a colossus...
...Rubin question, of course, is not meant literally. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton, is easily found in his chairman's office at Citigroup, the banking colossus. Fat lot of good that does us. The Bush Administration faces an all-out market crisis and can offer only wavering reassurances from the untested Paul O'Neill, the former Alcoa boss and current Treasury Secretary. And then there's Bush himself, whom no one sees as supremely tuned to Wall Street worries...
...memory of the violence. We will remember last words of telephone conversations cut off at the moment of the blast; stories of wheelchairs and their occupants wedged in narrow stairways, and the running bodies who could only hope to escape themselves; the words of a battered, bruised colossus of a firefighter sobbing, “I tried to save them all—but I couldn’t”; ghostly figures, caked in the dust of the wreckage, running north through the streets of Manhattan; endless lines of donors waiting to give blood...
...even though nationalism, suspicion of the U.S. and fear of U.S. domination once seemed to be the DNA of Mexican politics, Fox's drive to deepen and intensify Mexico's relationship with what used to be called, unflatteringly, the Colossus of the North gets nearly unanimous applause from ordinary Mexicans and from political opponents. "In principle it's a great plan that we support," says Eddy Varon Levy, a green card-carrying, part-time resident of Los Angeles who is the deputy international-affairs coordinator for the once-ruling P.R.I. congressional delegation...
...undeniably the most powerful nation in the world, and yet it is still holds international courts suspect. Can we reasonably expect a much smaller and weaker nation, one that has seen first hand the awesome power of international response in the form of the NATO military colossus, to trust the international community, if we ourselves will...