Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...points in the polls. She had her first headline victory last week, defeating Mary Gall, Bush's pick for Consumer Product Safety Commission chair. Speculation that the Clintons would divorce soon after leaving the White House now vies with speculation that Bill might someday be the first First Gentleman. These days they're spending many weekends together...
This was the year Armstrong got cocky, the year he became the gentleman gunslinger. Back in the early '90s, he was a straight-talking, middling Texan toughing it out in a European sport. Then he got cancer, which changed his life and his body. The treatment oddly reshaped his muscles for climbing, the most crucial part of the Tour de France. He taught himself how to cycle, not just ride a bike. That led to last July, when he became a two-time Tour de France champion, and the kind of comeback story of which HBO movie producers dream...
...Monti is a gentleman--reserved, charming--but very formal. I don't know his inner soul. I do know his staff was hard over on this opinion [rejecting the merger...
...past two weeks, some of the heat has gone out of U.S.-European disagreement on those issues, and for that, you can thank the gentleman from Vermont, James Jeffords. When he handed control of the U.S. Senate to the Democrats, he changed the strategic equation. As one observer of Rumsfeld's trip to Brussels noted, it may now be no easier to convince the Senate than the Europeans of the virtue of missile defense. And it took extensive lobbying by the Clinton Administration to get the Senate (then under Republican control) to welcome Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into...
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