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Criticized for its lack of pedestrian safety in the aftermath of Palmer-Sherman's death, the restaurant has since led a relatively low-key existence until the recent incident...
When it comes to incompetence, the campaign charge came up most specifically against Silvestre Reyes, the Hispanic from El Paso, Texas, who heads the Intelligence Committee. The Washington Post wrote that the "whispers" about Reyes center on his "intellectual firepower." He is a former border-patrol agent with a low-key manner and a hearing problem that often leads people to think he doesn't understand them. Not only does he lack the starched-shirt intimidating attitude, but his education is definitely not Ivy League: a two-year degree from El Paso Community College. The initial questions about Reyes came...
...fundraising for the Faculty, which faces a deficit projected to grow to $75 million by fiscal year 2010 amidst major building projects and extensive Faculty hiring earlier in the decade. Both Faust and Smith stressed that they kept their getting to know each other low-key. “It didn’t seem like a courtship,” Faust said. “We just had a number of substantive discussions. After one or two of them, I asked Mike if this is something he would think about seriously. It seemed our goals were aligned...
...Whereas in the past couple of decades Vietnam's government would often conduct the trials of its opponents relatively low-key, the latest wave of denunciations and arrests have been anything but. Indeed, they seem to have been stepped up in response to a resurgent pro-democracy movement and, for the first time, publicized in state media. Foreign and local journalists have been allowed to attend the open trials, while the state-controlled media has run lengthy screeds against the defendants. The shift in strategy is in some ways a reflection of a changing Vietnam. Nearly 60% of the population...
...founded the Moral Majority in 1979; at its peak it had 6 1/2 million members and a budget of $10 million. Falwell's power got him access all over Washington--but that didn't always lead to action. For all his public fire breathing, White House aides found him low-key and respectful in private; he did not march into the Oval Office with a to-do list. Falwell backed Presidents whose Supreme Court nominees chose to uphold Roe v. Wade rather than overturn it. Even as the bookstores filled with alarmed accounts of the rise of a new American...