Word: dons
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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As Bush tries to build his administration in a hurry this winter without setting off any partisan alarms, he could use a moderate-looking energy secretary who won't scare the environmentalists, somebody who isn't promising a derrick in every nature preserve. And he'll be looking for Democrats...
But a little ignorance goes a long way. I wasn't in on the top-level pre-merger meetings; my editor wasn't worried about me spilling any secrets in this piece because I don't really know any. So my objectivity hasn't taken much of a beating.
Suspicious enough to pay top dollar - many, many billions - for my services. And it's nice to be wanted. It's nice to know that my news-themed content just got the inside track (don't tell the FTC I said that) to some 25 million paying subscribers. And it...
"No, that's not the way the Palestinian Authority works. I asked an official recently, do you have a team preparing for how to operate if you have to deal with a Likud government? He laughed, and said you have to understand that we don't prepare, we simply react...
"They're offering to soften the closure. It's like that story about the rabbi whose approached by a man complaining that his house is too small, and the rabbi advises him to keep a goat, and then a cow, and then a horse and so on inside the house...