Word: manners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...often brutal game of national politics where Lady Bird Johnson dwelt in some manner for nearly 70 years she was, said Hugh Sidey, TIME's late chronicler of the American presidency, "as close to being a Godly creature as that anguished realm ever produced." In these last years her admirers (and who was not one?) in sheer frustration at the inadequacy of language to capture her virtues would say over and over again, "Lady Bird is a saint...
...Journal du Dimanche when pressed on the DSK nomination. "I haven't asked Dominique Strauss-Kahn to stop being Socialist. (But) should I rob France of his candidacy because he's a Socialist. How could I claim to be president of all French people if I reasoned in that manner...
Boeing's unveiling of the new 787 Dreamliner, auspiciously timed for 7/8/07, drew a crowd of 15,000 employees and their guests to Boeing's Everett, Wash., facility in a manner fitting for what is the most successful, fuel-efficient commercial jetliner in history. To date, 47 carriers have ordered 677 of the planes. Carbon fiber composites make up 50% of the plane's material by weight (compared with only 12% in Boeing's last released jetliner, the 777), enabling Boeing to offer cost savings and more passenger comfort to airlines. But now that the celebrating is over, Boeing will...
Back in my apartment my iPhone and I became acquainted in the manner of gadgets and reviewers since time immemorial, over spicy Chinese food. The packaging is nothing special, though Apple's trademark fine manufacturing tolerances are evident even in the box, which resists opening with a satisfying pneumatic counter-suck - the cover is so precisely made it's reluctant to let air flow in around it. I hooked the iPhone up to my iBook with a feeling of pride roughly comparable to that of someone setting up an old friend with a really hot blind date. iTunes needed...
...subject. Nobody proposes touching Schwarzman's big founder's stake, which slipped below $8 billion within days as Blackstone's stock price dropped. At issue instead is the mere $398 million he made as CEO last year, much of it in carried interest on Blackstone's investments. And the manner in which carried interest is taxed is enough to make even a megamillionaire corporate CEO envious...