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(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.
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 ...

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 ...
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 ...
One is reminded here of New York Times columnist William Safire's 1994 defense of President Bill Clinton against Paula Jones' ...
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 ...

One is reminded here of New York Times columnist William Safire's 1994 defense of President Bill Clinton against Paula Jones' charges ...
One is reminded here of New York Times columnist William Safire's 1994 defense of President Bill Clinton against Paula Jones's charges ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
But this is not 1970, the year the White House speechwriter William Safire coined that memorable phrase for the Nixon administration to push ...
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 ...
In his “Political Dictionary,” William Safire defines the bully pulpit as “active use of the president's prestige and high visibility to inspire or ...
... on his storefront in 37 years of doing business yet received visits from notables such as columnist William Safire and novelist Larry McMurtry.
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 counterfactual linchpin of the play is an undelivered 1969 speech by presidential speechwriter William Safire titled In Event of Moon ...
William Safire of the New York Times once characterized American political rhetoric as BOMFOG, with those running for high office relentlessly ...

William Safire of the New York Times once characterized American political rhetoric as BOMFOG, with those running for high office relentlessly ...
While the phrase has come into annoyingly common usage in recent years, William Safire, the late New York Times columnist, plumbed the ...
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 ...
President Nixon's speechwriter, William Safire, drafted the backup speech, titled "IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER", which was publicly ...
The letters of the columnist and speechwriter William Safire have recently been digitized by the Special Collections Research Center at ...
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.
William Safire, the period's most respected conservative columnist, later wrote in the New York Times, “The war in the Persian Gulf was brought ...
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.
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 ...
William Safire, the late political and linguistics columnist who wrote speeches for Richard Nixon, noted in 2008 that the term's “harsh ending” is ...
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 ...
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.”.
In April of 1996, William Safire described Hillary Rodham Clinton as a “congenital liar.” If anything, his diagnosis has been confirmed and ...
U-T business columnist Dan McSwain explains why he is leaving his dream job. "Done properly," McSwain writes, "a column not only tells you ...
Political hardball, according to William Safire's Political Dictionary, refers essentially to rough political tactics, which are stronger than practical ...
PROLOGUE: The late William Safire, author of 'Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History', was the one who described the American ...
At least, old Ted Agnew had the late William Safire writing his stuff for him. "Nattering nabobs of negativism." "Pusillanimous pussyfooters.
Much as Nixon had his court Jews — speechwriter William Safire and adviser Henry Kissinger were the most prominent — Trump has his.
Hillary Clinton may have been a “congenital liar,” as William Safire famously put it. But Trump is something else: a Jabberwock president, ...
... Deb Amlen, and Ben Zimmer, who used to write the Times' magazine's “On Language” column, following in the footsteps of William Safire.
Henry Kissinger was admitting privately–to speechwriter and future New York Times columnist William Safire–that "Vietnamization" of the ...
To prepare for the worst, Nixon speechwriter William Safire wrote an alternative address for the president to read should the men not return.
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 ...
President Nixon's speechwriter, William Safire, drafted the backup speech, titled "IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER", which was publicly ...
The letters of the columnist and speechwriter William Safire have recently been digitized by the Special Collections Research Center at ...
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 ...
... written for him by White House speechwriter William Safire, who later became a New York Times columnist and the author of “On Language.
Commentators from Michael Moore to the late William Safire attacked that deregulation, decrying the power of television conglomerates.
The phrase strategic patience actually predates Obama—William Safire wrote an On Language column about it in reference to the Clinton ...
Richard Nixon once told William Safire that he wished all guns could be abolished. Gerald Ford was a firm believer in gun control.
The newspaper columnist William Safire, who wrote elegantly on both politics and language, traced the etymology of the term further in 2009.
Vice President Spiro Agnew once voiced words crafted by speechwriter William Safire describing the press as "nattering nabobs of negativism.
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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