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BloombergQuint
December 8, 2017
(Bloomberg) -- There are some 6,000 banks in the U.S. The biggest six have $10 trillion in assets, almost twice as much as the next 30 combined. The six biggest banks in the U.S. and Europe have increased their assets more than five-fold since 1997. That's a lot of money in a small number of hands.
TheStranger.com
December 7, 2017
Despite the best efforts of William Safire, Edwin Newman, and John Simon (surely you've read all of their language-centric books), certain irksome phrases have somehow entered common parlance, like black mold in your shower caulking. They may initially seem innocuous, but if you start paying close ...
Kenosha News
December 7, 2017
Classic, classy, conservative columnist William Safire observed early in our new century that government deficits were developing “as far as the eye can see,” as spending escalated and taxes were cut by the new administration of President George W. Bush. The influential columnist added that the growing ...
Chicago Tribune
December 5, 2017
Classic, classy conservative columnist William Safire observed early in our new century that government deficits were developing "as far as the eye can see," as spending escalated and taxes were cut by the new administration of President George W. Bush. The influential columnist added that the growing ...
NWAOnline
November 21, 2017
One is reminded here of New York Times columnist William Safire's 1994 defense of President Bill Clinton against Paula Jones' ...
The National Memo (blog)
November 17, 2017
On the New York Times op-ed page, a forum for Clinton-bashing from the late William Safire to the eternal Maureen Dowd, new columnist ...
Chicago Tribune
November 16, 2017
One is reminded here of New York Times columnist William Safire's 1994 defense of President Bill Clinton against Paula Jones' charges ...
Eagle-Tribune
November 15, 2017
One is reminded here of New York Times columnist William Safire's 1994 defense of President Bill Clinton against Paula Jones's charges ...
The New Times
November 9, 2017
... use the memorable term coined by the late William Safire) who seem to believe their role is to be the magnifiers of Western narratives on their ...
Sports Illustrated
November 9, 2017
Not to get all William Safire here, but Sung is correct. Yet I would ask: when does a phrase that is, technically, incorrect grammatically gain ...
Sharnoff's Global Views
November 7, 2017
But this is not 1970, the year the White House speechwriter William Safire coined that memorable phrase for the Nixon administration to push ...
The Online Citizen
November 2, 2017
A few weeks later, a New York Times article, "Essay; The Dictator Speaks", written by William Safire, details the late Lee Kuan Yew bringing up ...
Mail Tribune
November 1, 2017
In his “Political Dictionary,” William Safire defines the bully pulpit as “active use of the president's prestige and high visibility to inspire or ...
BTW
October 26, 2017
... on his storefront in 37 years of doing business yet received visits from notables such as columnist William Safire and novelist Larry McMurtry.
Spectator.co.uk
October 19, 2017
Thirty years ago, the late William Safire attributed the prevalence of steen in American names to the influence of Yiddish, in which this initially ...
The Guardian
October 13, 2017
The counterfactual linchpin of the play is an undelivered 1969 speech by presidential speechwriter William Safire titled In Event of Moon ...
The Nation.
October 10, 2017
William Safire of the New York Times once characterized American political rhetoric as BOMFOG, with those running for high office relentlessly ...
Common Dreams
October 9, 2017
William Safire of the New York Times once characterized American political rhetoric as BOMFOG, with those running for high office relentlessly ...
Asbury Park Press
October 5, 2017
While the phrase has come into annoyingly common usage in recent years, William Safire, the late New York Times columnist, plumbed the ...
The New Yorker
September 22, 2017
It's no wonder that DARE has been lauded since its inception; William Safire called it “the most exciting new linguistic project in the twentieth ...
Business Insider
July 23, 2017
President Nixon's speechwriter, William Safire, drafted the backup speech, titled "IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER", which was publicly ...
TIME
May 24, 2017
The letters of the columnist and speechwriter William Safire have recently been digitized by the Special Collections Research Center at ...
WTOP
December 31, 1999
Clinton had a more forceful reaction in 1996 after New York Times columnist William Safire called Hillary Clinton a “congenital liar” following revelations about her involvement in an Arkansas land deal known as Whitewater, and her role in a controversy involving dismissals at the White House travel office.
New York Magazine
December 31, 1999
William Safire, the period's most respected conservative columnist, later wrote in the New York Times, “The war in the Persian Gulf was brought ...
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
December 31, 1999
William Safire, in 1996, wrote that Hillary Clinton was a congenital liar. In the opinion of many, she spent the next 20 years proving him correct.
Virginian-Pilot
December 31, 1999
William Safire called Hillary Clinton a congenital liar. She said all those things and more. And there's plenty more where they came from. She is ...
Mic
December 31, 1999
William Safire, the late political and linguistics columnist who wrote speeches for Richard Nixon, noted in 2008 that the term's “harsh ending” is ...
The New Yorker
September 23, 2017
It's no wonder that DARE has been lauded since its inception; William Safire called it “the most exciting new linguistic project in the twentieth ...
Mad River Union
September 21, 2017
That ultimately steered me to a 2002 “On Language” column by the late New York Times word expert William Safire titled, “Pop Go The Lyrics.”.
Sonoran News
September 20, 2017
In April of 1996, William Safire described Hillary Rodham Clinton as a “congenital liar.” If anything, his diagnosis has been confirmed and ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 10, 2017
U-T business columnist Dan McSwain explains why he is leaving his dream job. "Done properly," McSwain writes, "a column not only tells you ...
The Manila Times
September 4, 2017
Political hardball, according to William Safire's Political Dictionary, refers essentially to rough political tactics, which are stronger than practical ...
Vanguard
August 23, 2017
PROLOGUE: The late William Safire, author of 'Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History', was the one who described the American ...
Esquire.com
August 23, 2017
At least, old Ted Agnew had the late William Safire writing his stuff for him. "Nattering nabobs of negativism." "Pusillanimous pussyfooters.
Ottawa Citizen
August 22, 2017
Much as Nixon had his court Jews — speechwriter William Safire and adviser Henry Kissinger were the most prominent — Trump has his.
New York Times
August 18, 2017
Hillary Clinton may have been a “congenital liar,” as William Safire famously put it. But Trump is something else: a Jabberwock president, ...
Condé Nast Traveler
August 14, 2017
... Deb Amlen, and Ben Zimmer, who used to write the Times' magazine's “On Language” column, following in the footsteps of William Safire.
Common Dreams
August 5, 2017
Henry Kissinger was admitting privately–to speechwriter and future New York Times columnist William Safire–that "Vietnamization" of the ...
Newsweek
July 24, 2017
To prepare for the worst, Nixon speechwriter William Safire wrote an alternative address for the president to read should the men not return.
Politico
July 23, 2017
William Safire, who was working at the time as a New York-based publicist for a firm hired by the kitchen's designer, had spotted Khrushchev ...
Business Insider
July 23, 2017
President Nixon's speechwriter, William Safire, drafted the backup speech, titled "IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER", which was publicly ...
TIME
May 24, 2017
The letters of the columnist and speechwriter William Safire have recently been digitized by the Special Collections Research Center at ...
Sonoran News
December 31, 1999
OK–That is a nice way to put it, but years ago back when the New York Times was a great newspaper, William Safire wrote “Hillary Clinton is a ...
Jewish Journal
December 31, 1999
... written for him by White House speechwriter William Safire, who later became a New York Times columnist and the author of “On Language.
The Hill (blog)
December 31, 1999
Commentators from Michael Moore to the late William Safire attacked that deregulation, decrying the power of television conglomerates.
Slate Magazine (blog)
December 31, 1999
The phrase strategic patience actually predates Obama—William Safire wrote an On Language column about it in reference to the Clinton ...
Guns.com
March 10, 2017
Richard Nixon once told William Safire that he wished all guns could be abolished. Gerald Ford was a firm believer in gun control.
NBC2 News
March 10, 2017
The newspaper columnist William Safire, who wrote elegantly on both politics and language, traced the etymology of the term further in 2009.
BizWest Media
March 9, 2017
Vice President Spiro Agnew once voiced words crafted by speechwriter William Safire describing the press as "nattering nabobs of negativism.
Vanity Fair
March 8, 2017
And, now, he'll fly to the Far East unencumbered by us nattering nabobs of negativism, as the convicted former Vice President Spiro Agnew called the press (in words actually written by speechwriter William Safire, later the clout-heavy New York Times ...
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