Word: impressively
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...notes that the Bush-Sarkozy embrace comes at a moment of what he terms "a changed balance of power" - an embattled, weakened Bush seeking a bit of positive PR via an emphatic validation from his French peer, while the popular Sarkozy continues to impress the French with his high-profile displays of diplomatic skill by making nice with the American superpower...
...beating everyone else by 40%," he recalls. "Because everybody else wants to buy a boat. I want to be famous." He gambled on a full-page ad in the New York Times, changed the name of the store to Wine Library and taught himself enough about wine to impress the resulting flood of customers. "I was 19, but I looked like I was 11. It became a circus act because people wanted to hear me talk about Burgundy...
...window for another controversial would-be power broker. Despite Nagin's sagging popularity, the colorful New Orleans mayor came back from the brink of political extinction by solidly winning a second term last November. He's something of a political chameleon, easygoing and businesslike when he needs to impress his conservative constituents and, since Hurricane Katrina, capable of a fiery, defiant oratory that has endeared him to a lot of African-Americans who are still struggling to get their lives back together - and who blame much of their difficulties on the state and federal governments...
...side, the President’s Harvard tour guides looked fearful: Kennedy had requested a visit to Weld 32, his freshman dorm room. They wanted nothing more than to impress their esteemed guest, but it was impossible. During a recent renovation, Kennedy’s former room had been turned into an elevator shaft...
...entire college career preparing for this moment—circle campus, delivering platitudinous speeches about arcane bureaucratic details. All the while, the busybody pretend-politicians of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) and Harvard College Democrats issue tendentiously-phrased press releases on sundry college-related and national issues, hoping to impress future voters with their deft imitation of the duplicitous and evasive officials they aspire one day to replace...