Word: leakings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reform bill, No Child Left Behind. "I've asked you all to come down here to get something done," said Bush, careful to spread his eyes across all four visitors. This was not the moment to show his contempt for the impulse of lawmakers to stonewall and grandstand and leak as they pursue their narrow self-interests. This was a moment for ego massage. "Had any of you decided that you didn't want to get something done," Bush said, "the process would have cratered." California Democrat George Miller was worried that there was not enough money...
...term. For months he's tried to prevent Sarkozy from taking over the ump, even threatening to fire him if he persisted in his bid. But it was Chirac, not Sarkozy, who put out the news. As Sarkozy's announcement was imminent last week, Chirac pre-empted him to leak confirmation after a private meeting between the two men, which was described as "warm" by Elysée officials. They said Chirac fully backed the Sarkozy bid he had sought so long to prevent. "Chirac was beaten, so he's trying to save face by giving the impression...
...SAPPORO Take a comfort break on top of the city's highest building. Toilets at the JR Tower's observation room are 160 meters above street level and walled with glass. According to the designer, "one is supposed to do it as if one is taking a leak into a river from the top of a bridge...
Bush had lunch with Reagan every Thursday whenever they were both in Washington. "It was a wonderful thing to look forward to, and there was never one leak out of it. We hit it off very well. I could say, 'Here's what I think is happening.' He would listen. I would say, Maybe you ought to do this to get this Senator to do that. He did not often comment on my suggestions. There was none of this 'Here's a three-point agenda, and you go out and then report back to me.' He made some tough calls...
...leak overshot the mark. The report of Bush's displeasure animated the Rumsfeld critics, who along with the press interpreted the move as an attempt to make him the fall guy for the growing scandal. Democrats may have, for the moment, saved the White House, which had begun to imagine the specter of a bipartisan consensus among nodding wise men that Rumsfeld, whom Bush never intended to remove, was finished. Instead, that claim was taken up vocally by partisan Democrats, including House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and presidential challenger John Kerry. At the White House, officials exhaled, happy that...