Word: gustos
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...underground rap circuit Eyedea is no pushover. The confidence he brings to talking up strangers at the bar is matched onstage by a gusto for witty improvisation that has flattened MCs on both coasts. Before he’d even graduated from high school, first-place trophies from countless freestyle tournaments were taking up bookshelf space next to James Joyce and A Brief History of Time. After winning the famous World Blaze Battle in 2000, broadcast on HBO and judged by rap extraordinaire KRS-One, Eyedea hung up his gloves because there wasn’t anyone left to fight...
They're fighting back with gusto. This year about 40 new vehicles will hit showrooms, the result of an estimated $12 billion to $15 billion development effort to reclaim American buyers. Eye candy like the redesigned Ford Mustang and a trimmer, more powerful Chevrolet Corvette are sure to draw some of the biggest crowds at this week's North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Everything from the dated Ford Taurus to Chevy's entry-level Cavalier has been either retooled or replaced altogether. Even boring old wagons are enjoying a renaissance, with better styling and handling, and creature comforts...
Assistant Professor of Sociology Mark J. Zimny said he was amused by the ruckus, joking that he “did not actually have a well prepared lecture in the can, thus he welcomed the unexpected intrusion with gusto...
Where Clinton’s doublespeak was confined mostly to his own adultery, Bush has extended the practice to all other aspects of his radical agenda. He has defiled the presidency with rare Nixonian gusto, in domestic as well as foreign policy. The damage caused by devastating deficits, a laissez-faire Environmental Protection Agency and an energy policy secretly crafted by energy executives will require decades of truly compassionate leadership to overcome...
...hope for Raffarin is one that he admits remains largely outside his ken: a return to growth, starting in the U.S. and Japan and hopefully spreading to Europe by the beginning of next year. Once the economy picks up, he vows, he'll tackle the vision thing with more gusto, focusing on completing his reforms of the pension and health-care systems and pushing power and money from Paris to the regions. To get there, Raffarin will have to confront ornery unions, suspicious voters and the Parisian élite who believe the Prime Minister is a symptom of French decline...