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...singly responsible for anything that happens domestically -- good or bad. That's why foreign policy counts for so much." For these consultants, the lesson is basic. "The key is not to concede the territory," says Rendon. "Push all the buttons, make lots and lots of speeches. Try your damnedest to articulate a vision. You have to at least appear to be thinking deeply about these matters...
...announcer was doing his damnedest to keep people entertained. He launched his Johnny Most and Jack Nicholson impressions. He apologized for the long ticket lines...
...balance. These men are racked and struggling, and if one of them sings he's "tougher than the rest," from a song of the same name, he sounds like he's faking it. No rebels here. This album is populated by people down the street who are trying their damnedest just not to be victims...
...boats in each event have to pass in tight spaces, coxes do not always use their best judgement, says Jerry Olrich, a member of the Head-of-the-Charles Committee, who has rowed in all 20 regattas. "Sometimes in the heat of battle, you just try to do your damnedest...
...perhaps gross. Styled as a basic "women's literature" textbook, Titters 101 is the image of the abused high school volume, in which every kind of girl wrote notes to her friends and herself. With underlinings in blue and hand-written scribblings in the margins, the book tries its damnedest to give the illusion of being used. Starry-eyed, worldly wise, crude and prude alike have scrawled in the margins. A sampling...