Word: swifts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Probably not much. Though anyone could file an ethics complaint against Gonzales, and a lawyer disciplinary committee could start poking around on its own, the reality is that state bars are neither bold nor swift. As Silver puts it, "I'd be astonished to find the Texas bar taking the lead...
Members of the organizations expressed concern that the swift assumption that a large group of black people couldn’t possibly be Harvard students—and the resulting decision to call HUPD on the “trespassers”—betrays some students’ underlying prejudices about the acceptable race of the average Harvard student. In the ensuing e-mail debate on numerous lists, such complaints were dismissed as touchy and divisive by a disturbingly large number of people. That’s right, they pulled the “playing-the-race-card?...
...response was swift and alarming: “It is too bad so much time and effort was put into a game that clearly favours some people against others,” he wrote. “Where I come from they’d say you guys did a shitty job. Well I’ll only say that you are incapable.” It wasn’t yet 10 p.m. The first turn had been played at 5 p.m. We didn’t think we’d yet had enough time to screw...
...torch had barely been extinguished when Romney decided to take another shot at politics, again with the opportunistic instincts of a venture capitalist. He muscled aside a vulnerable G.O.P. incumbent, acting Governor Jane Swift, after promising not to run against her; then he sideswiped Democrat Shannon O'Brien. After she accused him of trying to "mask a very conservative set of belief systems," Romney called her "unbecoming," leaving the impression that he considered it a none-too-veiled attack on his religion. He won, 50% to 45%, carrying many of the Democratic areas of the state...
...Critics say his four years in office produced very little. "There's two ways to look at this guy. One is that the glass is half empty. The other is that the glass is totally empty," says Stephen Crosby, a Republican who served in the Swift administration and is now dean of the graduate school of policy studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Romney's ads and campaign speeches boast of engineering an economic turnaround. But Michael Widmer, president of the nonpartisan Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, points out that the state has lagged most others in job growth. And while...