Word: passione
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...demands. "Decisions about benefits changes can't be made instantaneously as they can be in the private sector," says Blaine Bos, a consultant for Mercer based in Minneapolis, Minn. Instead, government agencies have to battle bit by bit for benefit trims that employees can collectively counter by marshaling great passion. In 2005 when California's Governor Schwarzenegger tried to radically reform the state's expensive pension plan, he met a firestorm of protest from unions, and ultimately backed down...
...These iconic roles are rekindling the passion for politics that the French lost in the 1990s and early 2000s, when ideology waned," says Perrineau. "Now larger-than-life personalities and clashing styles have fanned those political passions again - Sarkozy being the best example of that, but one now also creating anti-Sarkozy icons. The problem for the party is, it now has two anti-Sarkozy icons battling for the party leadership as anti-icons of each other. And the passions that it is creating will have to be reckoned with for a long time...
...Harvard, Ajayi again thought of giving up football in favor of his childhood passion before settling on the gridiron game...
...allies point out that the move would not be without its negatives. Friends like New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter are counseling her not to take the job. They say she would be giving up important work in the Senate, particularly on the health-care-reform cause that is her passion. Others warn that her job description at Foggy Bottom would mean she'd lose her own voice. Against that, enthusiasts for the move point out, Clinton is smart, a fast and thorough study, and tough as nails. And with Obama focused on the economy, she could have a big role...
...with Democrats now in control at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, those kinds of investigations are certain to be put on a back burner. And legislation has been Waxman's greatest passion since he was elected to Congress in the 1974 class of post-Watergate reformers. The walls of his office are covered with framed souvenir pens that were given to Waxman by Presidents from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton in recognition of the role he played in the landmark legislation they signed into law. Among those bills were generic-drug legislation, food- and toy-safety laws, Medicare catastrophic coverage...