Word: robustly
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...Excuses or no, over the years he's bruised egos with his lack of social skills and his robust negotiating technique. Chancellors always confront Cabinet colleagues over budgets. Brown seems to have ruffled more feathers than most, though Baroness Morris says her frustration was tempered with gratitude: "You're thinking, 'Thank God he runs the economy so well so we have this money to spend.'" Others have proved less forgiving. Former Cabinet colleague Charles Clarke branded Brown a "control freak," while Lord Turnbull, a top civil servant, remarked of his management style at the Treasury: "You cannot help but admire...
...Representatives of big business at the gathering included executives from General Mills, Qwest and, most notably Wal-Mart, which has become for some a symbol of the failure of American corporations to provide robust and affordable insurance to its employees. Major companies in the United States employ many of the nation's more than 40 million uninsured. There for big labor was Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union, a long-time champion of health care reform who has been criticized by some on the left for working in coalition with Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott...
...advertises a special fare of just $6.60 plus taxes for a flight from New Delhi to Jaipur. Add in higher fuel prices and you've got a recipe for red ink. Analysts put collective losses for Indian airlines at $500 million last year, following a couple of years of robust profit growth...
...proficient in reading, up from 30% in 2002 but still a long way from ideal. Another key, Klein believes, is continuing to replace big, impersonal high schools with smaller schools that offer a sense of community and a variety of programs. Says Klein: "You want to create a really robust set of options...
...evidence is growing that this is exactly the right place for a newspaper to be. As circulation for most papers continues to fall, the Journal's is growing. Last month's figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation showed that the Journal posted another increase on top of its robust 2006 gains, to 1,721,694 subscribers...