Word: blanke
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...than I trust the media these days. What might keep journalists from getting too full of themselves? The sight of a few leakers, reporters and editors defending themselves against formal charges of treason might do the trick. Gary L. Parry Carrollton, Texas, U.S. Stengel's "No one gets a blank check" is the finest essay I have read for some time. It's a pity he couldn't station himself in Australia for a while to judge some of our pillars of society, whose double-talk is on a par with that of their ideological brothers and sisters...
They may come across as defiers of convention, pushing the edge as they slice through walls of water, but surfers are traditionalists by nature. For more than 40 years, as many as 9 out of 10 American wave riders have relied on one supplier of blank or unfinished boards: Gordon (Grubby) Clark. Last December when the old man slammed shut the doors of Clark Foam, in Laguna Niguel, Calif., he unleashed a tsunami. Some small businesses that had been shaping and finishing Clark's polyurethane (PU) boards simply wiped out; panic over supply swept the industry. But Clark's departure...
...Wilson of New Mexico has announced she will introduce legislation that differs from the Specter bill, and Democrats in both chambers are rallying against the new deal. Which means that instead of drawing the line in the ongoing war powers battle, the White House may end up drawing a blank...
...security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check. So listen carefully because, after all, you are the judge. It is the people themselves who are the makers of their own government. "The best test of truth," as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote, "is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition...
...SEDARIS Amy Sedaris is "boozer, user and loser" Jerri Blank in Strangers with Candy, the film version of her Comedy Central show...