Word: galle
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...boot. Pending admissions results, with Ben-Eze, Kenyi, and Wright, Amaker has already put together a better recruiting class than either Jones or Robinson has ever managed—some observers call it the best class in Ivy League history. According to Thamel, Scalise appeared to have the gall to call out the Ivy coaches on their anxiety. “Sounds like people are trying to protect the status quo for their programs,” he said.When Amaker was introduced as the coach of the Crimson last spring, he said that his goal was to win the school?...
...thus this key centrist ally of Prime Minister Romano Prodi announced that he, "with great courage," was withdrawing his party's support for the fragile majority, opening the door to a government crisis. "Che coraggio!?" an Italian might say with an apt double meaning: "What courage?" and "What gall!" Just 24 hours later, Mastella was already being publicly courted by Silvio Berlusconi, ever-present opposition chief, Prodi archnemesis and former - and would-be future - Prime Minister. Despite its air of overwrought soap opera, Italy's latest government crisis is almost anticlimactic. Prodi took office in 2006 with a razor-thin...
Starbucks has the gall to sling its lattes for coffee connoisseurs in Vienna, and Budweiser peddles its brew in Belgium. So why shouldn't Yum Brands--the Louisville, Ky.-based company that owns KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and more--sell dumplings in a fast-growing market where Chinese food is just called food? Heck, while they're at it, why not sell tacos in Mexico? Yum is doing both, with the test-marketing of East Dawning in Shanghai and the opening of a Taco Bell in Monterrey last fall. Yum's iconoclastic CEO, David Novak, likens...
...quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will...
...Senator John Cornyn should resign for co-sponsoring a resolution condemning MoveOn.org's free speech. This is the sort of fascism that is a far greater threat to Americans than terrorism. The Senate has the gall to question basic American freedoms while its members are under investigation for bribery (Ted Stevens) and sex scandals (Larry Craig and David Vitter). Dale Stevens, Montgomery, Texas...