Word: seat
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...something less than the sum of her resume. Why does a woman who has been Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Labor (the only woman ever to hold two Cabinet positions in different administrations), feel the need to begin an interview with a journalist riding in the back seat of a car by saying, "I was elected president of the third-grade bird club and in the seventh grade, I started the junior book club and made myself president"? And to say those words straight, without irony...
...safety--a brake light nicknamed the Dole light, and air bags--as well as a savvy p.r. campaign in which she billed herself as the "Safety Secretary." (She once greeted employees in the parking lot with a stop sign so that she could check if they were wearing their seat belts.) The little brake light at the bottom of the rear window already had been thoroughly tested. She says she "took it off the shelf" and made it a high priority...
Chubais also made his case to Yeltsin that day after a meeting of the Security Council, at which Lebed took his seat as secretary for the first time. After talking with Chubais, Yeltsin announced that he was firing Korzhakov, Barsukov and First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, the overseer of the military-industrial complex and reputed godfather of the antireform cabal. Korzhakov and Barsukov, the men who had been working to prevent a putsch, were suddenly ousted themselves. Yeltsin said he was tired of accusations that he allowed the hard-liners to run things, "as if the President were working...
...those few of you who have never engaged in the sport of securing a row for your very own, a word of explanation. There is a whole strategy to airplane seating. The goal is to have an entire row to yourself, although as I write this, I am unsure why I would want the whole row for myself; it's not as though I need three seats. But this is not a sensible process, let me assure you. Anyway, the first line of defense is to sit down in the outside seat, because if a person wants to sit down...
...there I was, sitting in my aisle seat, trying to look intimidating and unfriendly. Everything seemed to be working fine until a hassled-looking man with papers overflowing from his briefcase came tumbling down the airplane aisle, completely oblivious to my carefully-planned tactics. He spotted the unoccupied seats next to me and began to move in for the kill. In desperation, I considered mumbling to myself and drooling on my chin, but my good sense got the better of me and I mover over, glowering at him all the while. I took out my free magazine...