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Well-liked by the coaching staff, Azelby is also admired by his teammates. "Joe was the easiest choice for captain that we've had in a long time," Dailey said. "Sometimes we had to vote on three or four ballots, but it only took one with Joe. He's basically a player's type of captain. Everybody likes the kid. He deserves everything he's received...
...undocketed resolution whose passage would have required the Council to waive one of the rules it had passed overwhelmingly earlier that same night. While several aspects of the resolution argued against its adoption, its violation of a precedent so recently established was merely the most obvious and the easiest to understand. The Council did indeed discuss at length whether to preserve the precedent, and in the end decided to respect procedural norms. The Council's discussion of procedure, however, does not justify the statement that it was "tangled in procedural arguments...
...easiest riposte to such new political thought is to claim it does not exist ("Where's the beef?"). By dismissing a new notion out of hand, a critic hopes to pre-empt debate on the idea without being forced to wrestle with the merit or the substance. For longer than anyone in Washington can remember, Presidents have been confronted by frothing opponents who claim, "He has no foreign [or domestic] policy." Translated, that generally means, "I won't accept his ideas but I don't have anything of my own." Fortunately, such obfuscation does not prevail long...
However, securing enough votes to ensure election may prove to be the easiest of all tasks for the ultimate winner. Success for the new government and a peaceful future for the entire country hinges upon the president's ability to deal effectively with the three major elements controlling the current chaotic situation--the army, the rebels and the U.S. Congress...
Weinberger is the easiest to pick at, because, by most accounts, he is one of the worst defense secretaries ever. He is not stupid, nor have his policy proposals, in their own may, been insignificant. By pressuring unremmittingly for a huge arms build-up, he has redefined the debate on defense spending. The question is no longer do we have increases of a few percent in the budget; it is do we increase it by more than 10 percent...