Word: gulf
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...been able to drop the hint. Powell is a minority Republican who talks like a Democrat, a national amalgam, a military man who could have been a unifying Ike but didn't like politics enough to run. He's a perfect combination of the the elder Bush's Gulf War and the younger's "compassionate conservatism," and he's just prickly enough with his adopted party to be believable...
...position in politics. From nuclear secrets to oil prices, it's a rattlesnake-herding job in which people only notice you when you screw up. And, like a lot of Cabinet positions, it tends to put a cap on your political career (unless you're defense secretary during the Gulf War or something). If Breaux, who has emerged of late as the media's go-to guy on Senate centrism, is tempted to answer the President-elect's call, he need only look at one person: Bill Richardson...
...think the biggest obstacle [to donating the site]is ... Harvard has another use it would like to put the site to," Spiegelman said. "I'm not going to minimize there's a big gulf" between Harvard's needs and the community's wishes...
...latest campaign, to say nothing of the chaos that followed Election Day, did not have much to do with his problems last week. Nothing he went through as a candidate for Vice President, Cheney said, compared to the stress he faced as Defense Secretary during the Persian Gulf...
...daily output of 2.5 million barrels, thereby nullifying the impact of Saddam's latest gambit. Iraq had hoped that by raising pressure on the world oil price it would strengthen its campaign to break out of the U.N. sanctions regime imposed on Baghdad at the end of the Gulf...