Word: iron-clad
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...social security a federal program? Does the current President know that social security is a federal program? Would the President know that social security is a federal program if his advisors hadn't told him so? Have you ever seen a lock box? Have you ever seen an iron-clad lock box? If you had an iron-clad lock box in your garage would you loan it to the president contingent upon him knowing that social security is a federal program...
...greatest conceptual project was marriage to Lennon. It let her inflate her thought balloons to global scale, but they burst. Those "bed-ins" for peace were sweet but also hard to distinguish from pure exhibitionism. The dreamy directives of her conceptual art became harder to square with the iron-clad narcissism of so much else that she did. "After unblocking one's mind," she once wrote, "by dispensing with visual, auditory and kinetic perceptions, what will come out of us? Would there be anything? I wonder." By the end of this show you may still be wondering...
...promises that his Medicare and Social Security "lock-box," unlike that of his opponent, will be "iron-clad...
...warning that further rounds might be necessary. To be sure, the principle framework for an agreement between Israel and its most intractable foe has been on the table for quite some time: Israel returns the Golan Heights to Syrian control, in exchange for peace, normalizing of relations and iron-clad security guarantees. But the devilish details keep a deal tantalizingly out of reach...
...Republican the same question and you're likely to get a clear, confident response about a belief in the need for smaller government and a return to "traditional values." This is not to imply that the Republican Party has an iron-clad, uniformly-supported ideology. It doesn't. Significant tensions do exist within the party--between deficit hawks and tax-cutters, libertarians and social moralizers, free traders and protectionists. But, despite these differences, Republicans at least seem to have a vision about the role and responsibility of government that they can unify around and use as a guide when governing...