Word: yeomans
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...Alan Greenspan did yeoman's work on that last one in his recent Senate testimony; Monday, Bush followed up his novelty-check event with a private lunch with the Fed chairman to discuss matters both fiscal and monetary. (As in, you're sure you don't mind if I keep telling people a tax cut can save the economy, even though you say it won't? Because it's my best leverage with the Democrats.) And then it's back on the trail...
...Cuba embargo from a presidential decree into an act of Congress. And it'll force the new president, like his predecessor, to choose between violating WTO regulations and facing down a very angry Senator Jesse Helms - and some even angrier and very organized folks down in Miami whose yeoman work last November may have helped him carry the electoral college...
Growing up, I tried to be a humble Yankees fan, preferring the yeoman efforts of Willie Randolph to the braggadocio of Reggie Jackson. I had a terrific vocabulary as a kid. The Yankees gave me confidence that I sorely needed as a bookish, freakishly shy child who was secretly desired by all the girls in his class...
...Cheney did more yeoman's work on Shaw's true softball, the "how would you change the tone in Washington" question. After acknowledging there is a better way to conduct government, Cheney said, "I've seen it done differently." Back in the old days of Bush the elder? No. "I've seen it done differently in Texas." The media book on Richard "the dud" Cheney is about to take a U-turn...
...Aaron Kim, [sophomore defenseman] Peter Capouch, and Matt Scorsune played very well last weekend," Mazzoleni said. "I was very pleased with the job Aaron did. He stepped in there and did the yeoman...