Word: unpleasanter
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Back in fifth grade, I used to ride the subway to school every day. Sometimes I would be scared--there were some pretty unpleasant-looking people on the uptown IRT. "You can't go through life being scared of the subway," my father would tell me. "You can't live...
Yet the insightful budding politico will make the best of this unpleasant situation by using insights from his hobby to enhance his work. A few candidates from the soon-to-be-concluded campaign set examples for different academic approaches.
"It's difficult now to get the impression that there is a great rivalry with unpleasant overtures," he says. "As long as both excel in economics, we'll compete, do it nicely, and enjoy it."
Yet Harshbarger says this is the most unpleasant campaign he has ever been in. The reason, he says, is Carbone's tactics. The conservative convert to the GOP has, through newspaper articles and public debates, launched a negative campaign against the liberal Democrat. "This is a nasty, gutter-level campaign...
Ignoring these unpleasant facts would have had grave consequences. Some of our more militant leaders were already talking about plans to seize foreign oilfields by force if our supplies were cut off again. Many others deeply resented that the greatest nation on earth was being jerked around by a few...