Word: toughness
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...knew I still had a guaranteed contract that's worth crazy money [$9.3 million for 2009-10] at a time when money is scarce in America. Yeah, I'm getting traded here and there, but in the big picture, I don't really look at it as a tough situation, because I'm blessed to be paid as much as I am. I have both family and friends that play overseas. They don't see a quarter of the money I see, and they never know where they're going. So, you know, I just look at the bright side...
...tough message to deliver to the Chinese - basically, "Do as we say, not as we did" - but it's hard to imagine a more credible messenger. It's not just that Chu is a Chinese American whose parents both graduated from Tsinghua before attending the real MIT or that he's the most qualified leader ever at the Department of Energy (DOE) - which is a bit like being the most likable character ever on NYC Prep. It's also that Chu is the kind of scientific savant the Chinese revere, a techno-geek who scored a Nobel for developing methods...
...Welcome to Washington, where a Nobel Prize winner's opinion is just another opinion, where facts are malleable and sometimes irrelevant. It's tough to be Mr. Outside in a town where policy happens on the inside. Congress is blocking Chu's plan to create eight "Bell lablets" to investigate his game changers, along with his efforts to scuttle hydrogen-car research he considers futile. He's trying to make DOE's bureaucracy more nimble, but it still pushed less than 1% of its stimulus funds out the door in five months. And while Chu ends speeches with Martin Luther...
...applause from the Marines. "- I'm sorry, I don't know how that got in there I know they haven't had ponytails in a year or two - and looks down at them through his cockpit as he flies over. 'Boy,' he radios his wingman, 'it must be tough down there...
Leibovitz, Annie • "tough times...