Word: gordon
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...bogeyman GM needs, allowing CEO Rick Wagoner to play the good cop in negotiations with GM's union, with the specter of a Kerkorian-led breakup in the background. GM can now go to the United Auto Workers and say "you can deal with nice Rick Wagoner or Gordon Gekko," says auto analyst Stephen Cheetham of Bernstein Research...
...Gordon currently holds a joint position in Social Studies and History and has taught courses such as History 10b, “Western Societies, Politics and Cultures: From 1650 to the Present...
...questions: Can a man so furiously branded a liar resume normal political leadership? How much legislation can Blair pass, given that his parliamentary caucus is reduced and no longer views him as a vote-winning magician? Where, precisely, is the tipping point after which power will start cascading to Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who knows his popularity rescued Blair during the campaign and thirsts...
...Blair is not yet done for. True, says one M.P., "the power of initiative is with Gordon." But, he continues: "The freedom is with Tony. Gordon has more to worry about." Brown has yet to win the hearts of middle England, without which Blair would not have won Labour's stunning victories in 1997 and 2001. Still, he's trying. At the final press conference before the election, almost jolly in his role as heir apparent, Brown deviated from his prepared text to soften rousing attacks on the privileged into gentler critiques of their privileges. Says a Blair ally...
...After reading Aesop’s lyric “the villain of my Kabuki hologram cuz I hobble with hollow hands” (from the titular track of 1999’s “Float”), an enthusiastic Professor of English and American Literature and Language Gordon L. Teskey felt compelled to mention that “a good deal of English verse of the sixteenth century, before the emergence of iambic pentameter in the theatre, sounded like that: longer lines, lots of alliteration, a basically oral style sometimes called “tumbling measure...