Word: talker
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...manageable; as a percentage of GDP, they still don't rival those faced by Ronald Reagan and the current president's father. "Nobody likes deficits, but the public will give this president the benefit of the doubt," adds one Bush adviser. "They liked Perot because he was a straight-talker; they like Bush for the same reason...
...overcome them, learn what he doesn't know or master what he knows only superficially; Cheney is the consummate student, a voracious reader who absorbs information, masters the details and takes quiet pride in his expertise. "Dick lets George be the external political outside guy, the schmoozer, the talker," says a friend who has known both men long enough to use first names. "And George lets Dick run the machine. George would be bored by process. He understands it. He manipulates it. But he doesn't want to live in it. George gets energy from interacting with people, like...
...team to victory. FM faced handicaps from the start, namely intoxication from consumption of dangerously fluorescent wine coolers and the conspicuous absence of Gossip Gizzuy and his two points’ worth of gratuitous letters. But the FM team did not go gentle into the good nizzight: Aforementioned trash-talker Benjamin D. Mathis-Lilley ’03 fought the good fight, asking if S-E-I-N-E was a word, or just, you know, a river. Mathis-Lilley was dealt a massive cock-block in the third round by Kenyon S.M. Weaver ’03, when both...
...Minnesota Coleman vs. Mondale This is the talker of the Senate races; Senator Paul Wellstone's sudden death in a plane crash just one week before the election left many Minnesotans wondering how to talk politics at such a tragic time. That hesitancy seems to have dissipated; Norm Coleman, the former St. Paul mayor, and Walter Mondale, the former Carter V.P. and presidential candidate met for a debate Monday, just hours before voters head to the polls. This one is too close to call...
...fortunes of U.S. airlines become more dependent on government regulations and largesse, Longmuir's experience in Washington is raising her profile. A smooth talker who double-majored in semiotics and Shakespearean literature at Brown University, Longmuir will need all her skills to deliver on the $1.8 billion loan application United has submitted to the government's airline stabilization board...