Word: hardheadedness
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Downplaying the moral component of the American project in Afghanistan may be smart if Obama's goal is to show he's not Bush. But it won't ultimately help win more support for his strategy - and it will ensure that his speech scores with pundits but not with the...
This unusual international collaboration is not solely aimed at reducing carbon emissions and husbanding the planet's resources, although hammering out a united front among Asia's top industrialized nations for the Copenhagen climate conference in December is one of the professed goals. It's really a hardheaded, shrewd initiative...
In 2004, the U.S. restarted its own lunar program when President George W. Bush announced a new commitment to have astronauts back on the moon by 2020 and on Mars in the years after. There was surely some political motivation in Bush's election-year proposal, but it was followed...
Now, she is releasing her fifth book - co-authored with autism specialist Dr. Jerry Kartzinel, titled Healing and Preventing Autism. The book is awfully smart when it comes to hardheaded advice for families trying to heal - or at least draw out - an autistic child. But McCarthy goes soft when she...
Instead, you bring in a guy like Emanuel, the most hardheaded, no-nonsense, foul-mouthed, smart-as-hell, get-it-done-or-get-out-of-my-way Washington insider of his generation. And you put him in charge of a White House staff whose task it is - and this is...