Word: mending
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...developed the public relations finesse of a Baker or Deaver. His fuse remains shorter than his good ole boy demeanor suggests. He also allows himself to be annoyed too easily by those correspondents who seem to specialize in baiting officials. With the Great Communicator still on the mend, the testiness that Speakes displays in suffering reporters, fools or otherwise, could crimp the ability of the White House to get its story across. --By James Kelly. Reported by Barrett Seaman/Washington
...Cocker covered this song in melodrama, which makes Green's restoration effort more amazing. Producer Willie Mitchell eschews preciousness and finds a tender little groove, while the Rev undersings at all the right moments. Green has turned trash into gold before (the Bee Gees' How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?), but this time he tops himself...
...Fleischer raises important points, but the sloppy execution ruins any chance he might have at convincing those in the media to mend their ways...
...What she brought back home was not immediately tangible. Unable to win from India or Pakistan an agreement to halt participation in a natural-gas pipeline from Iran, a country that the U.S. would like to isolate, she repeatedly emphasized that Washington backs recent efforts by both nations to mend their 58-year bitter dispute over the divided region of Kashmir. After stops in Afghanistan and Tokyo, where she called for greater democracy across Asia, Rice moved on to Seoul before flying to Beijing, where the real work of the trip was waiting...
...Bush doesn't say that kind of thing at home. He is famous for not admitting mistakes. Suggesting that he might actually bear equal responsibility for the frayed relations he was now trying to mend signaled to Europeans that the "Cowboy in Chief" might be ready to holster his guns. Certainly that was the message Bush spent the week trying to send. Usually he rushes through the diplomatic sessions and endless pomp of foreign visits. He is a man of action. He doesn't trust a lot of talk. That's one of the reasons he gets irritated by French...