Word: handed
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...great time to be a president who needed 35 days and 350 lawyers to win the election - but not a bad time to be a Republican. "We are going to play the hand we are dealt," Bush said Wednesday after naming ALCOA chief, old government hand (and longtime Greenspan buddy) Paul O'Neill to be his treasury secretary/tax-cut salesman in the coming storm...
...Vajpayee is playing a delicate political game. And that's taking India into another dangerous phase, where the [ruling Bharatiya Janata party] is revealing its hand, trying to exploit Hindu nationalist sentiments around the Ayodhya issue. Some observers believe that he may be doing this as something of a distraction for his supporters, trying to create political space for himself to push through tough economic measures, which he desperately needs to do. The government is basically bankrupt, and India is facing an economic slowdown. We're heading back into a terrible mess, but in a democracy as politically fractured...
...family that uses their stove to cook food, their furnace to heat the house, and their washer and dryer to clean clothes that should suffer because of that. Sometimes we can't simply close our eyes and hope that Adam Smith's magical, invisible hand will come and sweep away our problems. We're going to have to change our attitudes towards energy and the environment in general, but unfettered capitalism is not the way to achieve that change. The solution to the energy crisis lies in our ability and willingness to prioritize conservation and the environment as a group...
...other hand, selects three students--one from each class--to serve on its administrative board. Each student serves on the board for three years...
...from hard street (almost incomprehensible to the white ear) to a high, southern-preacherly eloquence (school of Martin Luther King Jr.) to the most sophisticated corporate mellowspeak, as smooth and fancy as Harvard. He speaks these various styles of English with virtuosity - a repertoire that ranges from unlettered field hand to articulate overlord...