Word: maiden
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...tell what people want to hear. In her maiden speech to parliament, Künast proposed increasing organic farming, which avoids pesticides, drugs and other manmade chemicals and feeds, from 2.5% of agriculture to 20% in 10 years, thus creating a common front with two other female Agriculture Ministers, Sweden's Margareta Winberg and Denmark's Ritt Bjerregaard. Künast proposed changing Germany's complex system of meat labeling into just two categories: organically grown food and products that meet minimum-quality levels. A poll taken after she had been in the job just one month showed...
...were a newly installed president of the Philippines and you heard a general was plotting to overthrow you, what would you do? If you were Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, heroine of last month's People Power II revolt in Manila, you'd get on your cell phone. At her maiden press conference last week, Arroyo was asked if Lieut. General Edgardo Espinosa, supposedly one of her most loyal military supporters, was planning a rebellion. As the news cameras rolled, Arroyo called the general and, using his nickname, asked: "Espine, are you going to stage a coup against me?" The general...
...first act to perform - the wine smashed against the ship for its maiden voyage, as it were - was the Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira, a symphony orchestra decked out with traditional (violins, etc) and modern (electric guitars, etc.) instruments. The Orquestra kicked things off with an ear-splitting version of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" - that's the theme from "2001: A Space Odessey" for those of you who don't follow classical music. The group was so startlingly loud I didn't really look up to see whether they were actually playing "Also Spach Zarathustra" or whether it was prerecorded...
...candidates look smaller now too. Johnson, whom Nancy Hanschman (her maiden name) covered in her first campaign in 1960, was a bigger personality running for Vice President than George W. Bush is today running for the top job. Perhaps L.B.J. was more mysterious - even if he did show off his surgical scar - because the cameras weren't always there. He and his friend House Speaker Sam Rayburn complained that television was killing the old back-room ways. Viewers thought Rayburn a lout when they saw him stay seated when Mom interviewed him. Editorial writers and voters criticized Johnson for talking...
...reading Wodehouse. When I begin to crack under the strain of insinuating political commercials, I intend simply to pass over for a little while into the innocent alternate universe of Bingo's dilemmas as he falls idiotically in love with a tea shop waitress, or a Bolshevik maiden, and applies to Bertie (meaning, of course, Jeeves) to help him sort...