Word: guts
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...flaws, Senator Obama at least understands that there isn’t always a gut-felt answer in decisions of state, and he is honest with his voters about the complexities of policymaking. That insight and candor alone are more valuable than any number of years experience making decisions simply by sticking to the guns and guts of oversimplistic dogma...
...Clyde. And some political relevance: Mesrine questioned insurgents while serving his Army hitch in the Algerian uprising. There's not much suspense in whether he will survive Part 1 (the sequel has already been completed), but each episode detonates plenty of tension, and the movie leaves a residual gut-wrench - part revulsion, more fascination...
That may be true, but it is sort of like boasting that Richard Simmons has never been more intimidating. The Corps has yet to address the city's two most vulnerable points: the Gulf Outlet, a storm-surge shotgun pointed at the city's gut; and a "funnel" at the mouth of the Industrial Canal, another little-used Corps channel. The Corps has said $15 billion will be required to meet a 100-year safety standard; so far it has spent only about $2 billion. "That should give you an idea of how much work there still...
...McDormand's Linda Litzke, assistant manager at a D.C.-area gym, is at the opposite end of the esteem spectrum. Primally troubled by her sagging derriere, and by "a gut that swings back and forth in front of me like a shopping cart with a bent wheel," she obsesses on the plastic surgery she thinks will give her some kind of a life. The ruck of men she's found through online dating services don't offer much. One of them takes her to a movie comedy and doesn't laugh; to dinner and doesn't talk...
...Lead author of the paper Qiao "Joe" Zhou, a post-doctoral fellow working in Melton's laboratory, said that finding the correct combination of the three transcription factors to reprogram the cell that makes gut enzymes in mice into a more useful pancreatic cell was the result of three years of repetitive lab work...