Word: spokenness
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...with the spotlight on, Schapiro is in the prickly position of having to defend her enforcement record. At her hearing, the soft-spoken Schapiro bristled at media reports that she "infrequently" pursued tough action against big Wall Street names, saying the stories painted an "unfair picture." While chief at FINRA, she countered, her team handled 15,000 enforcement cases, including big names like Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Merrill-Lynch and Lehman. "I have never been afraid to go after people I thought who have violated the public trust...
...Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents...
...official themes and hyperbolic rhetoric of presidential inauguration seasons can seem to blend together. Barack Obama’s campaign for change echoes words spoken 16 years ago, when Bill Clinton reminded listeners that our nation requires “dramatic change from time to time. This is our time. Let us embrace it.” Inauguration slogans have ranged from the promising—Richard Nixon’s “Bring us together again”—to the self-congratulatory—James Madison’s “nobility...
...There is a narrative of sorts that emerges from Butterfly's solipsistic musing, but the book's greatest triumph is her voice, a pitch-perfect mixture of malaprop subcontinental English and the colloquial Urdu spoken by her class - perhaps the most authentic example of what Salman Rushdie has termed the "chutnification" of the English language. Mohsin's ear is preternaturally tuned to the exactness of its hilarious cadences, idiosyncrasies and reinventions ("bore-bore countries," "spoil spots," "what cheeks!"). There's hardly a sentence in the book that doesn't contain them...
...From the start, the soft-spoken but respected Senator Lugar, in his mildest, most diplomatic way, stated his concern that the former President's fundraising abroad might create an impression of a conflict of interest. "Foreign governments and entities may perceive the Clinton Foundation as a means to gain favor with the Secretary of State," he said. Therefore, he suggested, "even well-intentioned foreign donations [to the Clinton Foundation] carry risk for United States foreign policy...