Word: downrightness
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...setting off a round of tit-for-tat expulsions not seen since the mid-'80s. In talks with China's Vice Premier, Qian Qichen, he bluntly said Washington would sell whatever arms it chose to Taiwan, whether Beijing liked it or not. Bush and his advisers seemed downright eager to prove there's a new sheriff in town, ready to take a more hawkish, assertive posture on foreign policy. What's far less clear is whether the tough talk is simply a way to distance himself from Clinton, the posturing of an unsettled Administration that has yet to conform...
...Asian community. For instance, I might suggest that there was, let's say, a slight trend toward ethnic self-segregation, or a slight proclivity for the sciences over the humanities among Asian-Americans. And I might, if I were so inclined (not that anyone would be), get downright nasty and suggest that a large chunk of these self-segregated, math-and-science types are self-absorbed, clannish and downright weird...
...setting off a round of tit-for-tat expulsions not seen since the mid-'80s. In talks with China's Vice Premier, Qian Qichen, he bluntly said Washington would sell whatever arms it chose to Taiwan, whether Beijing liked it or not. Bush and his advisers seemed downright eager to prove there's a new sheriff in town, ready to take a more hawkish, assertive posture on foreign policy. What's far less clear is whether the tough talk is simply a way to distance himself from Clinton, the posturing of an unsettled Administration that has yet to conform...
...level staff members--most of whom lost their postelection break to the Florida fiasco--are being told they must take time off. Card needles his staff members daily, insisting they submit vacation schedules as proof that they are headed for the BarcaLounger. The forced march has turned some victims downright mawkish. "It's wonderful," says press secretary ARI FLEISCHER, who will attend the New York Yankees' opening day. "It's human. It's normal." Next: enforced yoga...
...That is why John McCain's quest for reform has intrigued almost every journalist in America as well as millions of voters. It is the man biting the dog. It's the fish out of water. It's downright counterintuitive. That's why we're fascinated. Here you have a conservative Republican from a conservative state who is fighting against an institution - soft money - that disproportionately benefits himself and his own party...