Word: manner
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Clinton may be constrained from stepping out by the fact that her party is in power at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Taking on her party in the manner that John McCain so often did in the early years of George W. Bush's first term is not, friends say, her way of doing business. "In retrospect, [McCain's] 2000-2002 persona was the result of personal pique, positioning himself as the Democrats' favorite Republican," says a Clinton adviser. "That's not the role she wants to play. That's the last thing she wants...
Both groups believe they can act in a bipartisan manner now that the election results...
...that hard. Our brains generate automatic responses to most stimuli. As the psychologist Robert Zajonc wrote compellingly in 1980, "We do not just a see 'a house.' We see a 'handsome' house, an 'ugly' house, or a 'pretentious' house ... We sometimes delude ourselves that we proceed in a rational manner and weigh all the pros and cons of the various alternatives. But this is probably seldom the actual case. Quite often 'I decided in favor of X' is no more than 'I like X.'" Most of us pick what we like, Zajonc said, and then we justify it later...
...friendship, and frozen treats.Unfortunately, what were originally sources of excitement soon turned sour. I learned that there were no qualifications because I was relegated to manual labor: whether I was churning the italian ice every fifteen minutes, tackling a never-ending pile of dishes, or furiously scrubbing all manner of surfaces, I was always occupied by a paranoid and micromanaging Ron, who seemed to be perennially watching me for the slightest mistake. I also discovered that the staff at IceScapes was so young and inexperienced because of an astronomical turnover rate, and that my “friends?...
...splash to keep you in the game, we suggest that she come in a wheelchair, and when the moment is right give her “the signal” to stand up and boogie. Everybody loves an underdog. When dancing with her, grind in a clockwise manner as is befitting a gentleman. Then comes the final dinner where they separate the men from the boys, the bourgeois from the landed gentry, the ribosomes from the other organelles. If you make it to the A.D.’s, prepare a brief treatise on the mating habits of speckled warblers...