Word: wayward
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Whatever the final shape of the package, the White House is looking to put together a new team that is camera ready. O'Neill and Lindsey not only were unskilled at presenting the President's plan but often made news with wayward public comments. Lindsey once called the Enron debacle a "tribute to American capitalism." He speculated on the cost of going into battle with Iraq when the rest of the Administration was downplaying war talk and the President was preaching fiscal discipline. O'Neill repeatedly made pronouncements that were far too candid for the markets' delicate constitution...
...never-to-be-topped "Arcadia," to name three of a dozen offspring of his fertile imagination. Seized by the irresistible impulse to find out what Stoppard had in mind about 19th century Russian socialists, and abetted by the gracious offices of Aisha Labi, TIME Europe's Florence Nightingale for wayward visitors, I entered the National bunker for my Stoppard marathon one autumn Saturday morning...
...economy didn't bite as an issue which is an enormous relief for the White House. The President wasn't hindered by the corporate scandals or even the fact that he later trimmed the budget for the cops who were supposed to clamp down on wayward CEOs. Harvey Pitt made himself the first casualty of the election having handed in his resignation early in the afternoon, clearing up one of the administrations most glaring carbuncles...
Fallen Leader, Wayward Followers
...Film Festival - it won the top prize there, as well as the critics' award at the Toronto Film Festival a week later - is Mullan's second feature-length work (after 1997's Orphans). The fact-based tale of four girls sent to one of Ireland's Magdalene asylums for wayward girls - often, it seems, their sin was simply being pretty and flirtatious - has little in common with Mullan's own background. But he has come to understand the connection between his story and the ones he tells in the film. "My father was our oppressor," he says...