Word: nosedness
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IN A RED TILE VILLA OVERLOOKING Lake Geneva, long-suffering diplomats shuttle in and out of meetings, their faces betraying anxiety that the most ambitious overhaul of international-trade rules since World War II is floundering. In Brussels, European Community officials denounce the hard-nosed obstinacy of their American counterparts...
Ruth's parents abandoned him to a Roman Catholic industrial school specializing in "incorrigible" boys when he was an oversize, undereducated kid, and he went right from it into baseball. In other words, he was adapted only to heavily masculine, institutional worlds, and then solely as show-off, big spender...
Bush warned top campaign officials in writing two months ago that they would face "termination" unless they stayed, as he recently put it, "out of the sleaze business." But the line between sleaze and hard-nosed campaigning is difficult to draw, and there is little indication that Bush's no...
Ambitious? You bet. Still just a snot-nosed Rhodes Scholar, Clinton lost that election. But only by a few points. He's been moving up ever since, as perhaps the slickest pol the Democrats have offered since JFK.
As always, the team played 40 minutes of hard-nosed basketball--diving for loose balls and struggling for rebounds.