Word: guts
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...been pursuing a kind of 12-votes-at-a-time strategy. On a recent visit to a community college in San Bernardino, California, he sat around a table with a dozen local residents for a closed-door discussion of his education policies and Republican plans to "cut and gut" important programs. He emerged after an hour radiating enthusiasm. Turning to his chief of staff, Leon Panetta, Clinton said, "If you let me do that every time we go out on the road, you'll have a happy President." More than that, he said, "I also think we might do ourselves...
Although he currently emphasizes deregulation, Wilson has traditionally upheld moderately active government. That too goes back to San Diego, where he halted runaway development and im- posed what became a widely imitated blueprint for "managed growth." "I have come to realize that my gut instincts as a young man were pretty valid, that there is a real role for government to do things for the public which they cannot do themselves," Wilson says. "However, I have grown increasingly skeptical of the kind of misfired good intentions that have led to huge increases in enrollment in entitlement programs...
Sunday, the Crimson advanced to the finals of the tournament with a gut-wrenching 4-3 win over Texas A&M, which also came in ranked 25th. The finals--which were held on Monday--saw a reversal of fortune, however, with 8th-ranked Texas Christian narrowly defeating the netmen...
Morrison has a hulking charm that makes one root against hope for Jake's regeneration. That, of course, would be to deny the movie's trajectory toward emotional wipeout. By the end, Once Were Warriors has left an ache in your heart, a hole in your gut...
Harvard's Director of Labor Relations Timothy R. Manning summarized recent developments at the meeting, Shepsle said. "The general sense I have, my own gut feelings, is all parties want this over with quickly and put to bed," Shepsle said...