Word: joining
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...loyalty makes me blind to failure or blind to talent, no. I'm a results-oriented person. As a matter of fact, I worry that there's not enough loyalty in politics right now. Look, I understand politics. This is a world where there are people who want to join the Administration to make more money eventually, to further their own cause at the expense of being a team player...
...Bush-Cheney transition team has moved at lightning speed identifying and nominating candidates to top government posts. Wednesday, Bush called upon two Republican officials and two private citizens to join his team. Paul O'Neill got the first call, nominated for treasury secretary. Though seen as something of a Washington outsider, O'Neill, most recently chairman of the Alcoa Corporation, served for a decade in the Office of Management and Budget in the '60s and '70s. His work under Gerald Ford introduced him to then-White House chief of staff Dick Cheney...
Leading up to the election, there was much speculation and suspicion that candidates for office might try to bring non-Republican friends to join, vote for them and then leave the club--especially because it is alleged that this very situation occurred in the Harvard College Democrats' election a few weeks prior. Such conditions, had they persisted, may very well have led to the unfortunate situation described by Lewis...
BAHA MEN Dogs are out. Time to join Right Said Fred on the bus to oblivion...
...siblings were harmful to his happiness. "I learned early on that very few people understand the positive aspects of estrangement," he says. For decades, Matthews waffled between trying to be part of the family and retreating. He would try to initiate changes but says no one was willing to join in. Over time, and with therapy, he discovered that the yearning he felt was based on an unrealizable ideal of what his three brothers might have been to him. "A real brother would be there no matter what," Matthews says, "and not have an agenda for you--just accept where...