Word: pragmatist
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...biting narrative that begins with a cockfight ends with a saturation of whiny phrases of adulation at gravesite. Brands’ attempt to make Franklin into a believable, fallible man dies once America is born. Lost is Franklin the pragmatist and born is the Franklin of elementary school boredom, a man worthy of reverence because he is dead, white and a founding father...
...Omar still keeps a tight grip on his Kandahar through his loyal corps commander, Akhtar Usmani. A native of Helmand, Usmani's a pragmatist, not a die-hard jihadi, and if the tide turns seriously against the Taliban in the southern provinces, he might step forward and negotiate Kandahar's surrender. He's held in check, to some extent by the 25-year old police chief, Hafez Majid (Mullah Omar owes the kid his life for pulling him out the wreckage after a truck bomb destroyed his house in Kandahar several years back.) Majid is fanatically devoted to Mullah Omar...
...Thursday, oil-drillers Pride and Marine Drilling merged into the third largest off-shore drilling firm in the world. The new company has to be asking itself into which kind of environment is it entering? Supply-side energy policy won't run into much trouble with the pragmatist Democrats with oil-drenched Breaux at their head, or even the Gephardt crowd, because it's good for labor. But surely it'd rather have George W. Bush and Trent Lott setting the pace...
...doubt it will be a problem. John is a conservative, but he?s not a religious ideologue. I wouldn?t put him in the most extreme category. I regard him as a pragmatist...
...lawyer; I'm a former magazine editor, now a literary agent. She studied classics at Bryn Mawr; I studied the history of religion at Vassar. She favors clothes that have actual colors in them; I opt for black. She's politically conservative; I'm more liberal. She's a pragmatist; I'm an optimist...