Word: gentlemanly
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...board. Iraq is still adjusting to a free market economy from one where state-run socialism reigned supreme. Today the government doesn't protect industry; furthermore, goods coming from abroad undercut local manufacturing. This all happened suddenly and swiftly. "To be honest, the war destroyed us," says one elderly gentleman in a yellow scarf and round spectacles...
...played up his 9/11 heroism, and portrayed himself an international ass-kicker, but he never really looked like he wanted to throttle anyone. He didn't sound vengeful or bitter or power-starved; he talked about "returning power to you!" Who would have thought Rudy would be the gentleman reminding voters that he's run a positive campaign, declaring that he's "sick and tired of all the name-calling...
Well, some people anyway. But then�there are the rest of you. You know who you are. You're the gentleman who delivered my groceries the other day and said we had a problem because I had to be 21 to receive alcohol. You're me when I told that same man that I liked a guy who knew his way around a dolly. (Lame, I know. I was caught off guard.) You're the fiftysomething guy behind me on the plane before Christmas telling his fortysomething seatmate how sensual her eyes were--actually, I hope you're not, because...
...gentleman in this will said he was leaving it to Harvard for a specific purpose,” said Suffolk Probate and Family Court register Richard Iannella, whose office keeps the will. “Obviously Harvard can’t use the argument ‘we don’t have the money to maintain it.’ They have the largest [university] endowment in the world...
...former Arkansas governor, who was the first man in his family to graduate high school. "You will restore the faith of a lot of people in this country that you can't buy the White House, that you got to earn it the old-fashioned way. And ladies and gentleman that is what Jan. 3rd is about...