Word: sit
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...leadership style is similarly direct. Although he insists "the details are important," Bush freely admits that he prefers one-page memos to bound treatises, oral briefings to long meetings. When he is briefed, he doesn't just sit back and listen. He engages his advisers, testing their logic and pressing them to get to the heart of the matter. From the minute someone starts talking about an issue, Bush is itching for a recommendation. As Albert Hawkins, his state budget director, says, "If you're going on too long, he tells you so." Says Bush: "I like to hear someone...
...thrilled to have to sit through this new stuff, and neither is anyone else. Iggy's new album (Avenue B) is a collaboration with Medeski, Martin and Wood of all people --and they're a terrible combination. Iggy crooning these songs is boring and bad; he's misogynist and even homophobic and makes stupid asides. He seems embarrassed to be doing this. There's no Iggy here. No point dwelling. Which is not to say j'excuse, but that these are uninteresting and common faults. He turns in a great cover of Jerry Lee Lewis' "Wild One" and encores with...
...this season, where Schaeffer was red carded in the 89th minute of a 1-1 tie for handling the ball outside the penalty box and saving the game for the Eagles, Schaeffer had started in 57 straight games for the Eagles. Because of the card, she was forced to sit out the Eagles' next game against Uconn, which the Huskies won 2-1 in overtime...
Having to sit out "was really tough, especially since I don't think we reached our potential last year," Melissa said. "To know that I could help out there and not being able to do so--that was tough...
Forward Chris Lewis, who missed the last eight games of last season for academic reasons, cannot play until mid-February, and Sullivan said he would not use his year of eligibility and would sit the season...