If Mr Romney thinks his best chance of beating Barack Obama is to run as a solid man of business who can turn the economy round, Mr Portman would amplify the reassurance.
He was a short and solid old man in a black peasant's smock and gray iron-stiff trousers and he wore rope-soled shoes.
Closer Joel Hanrahan was traded to Boston, leaving journeyman Jason Grilli to pick up the slack after another solid year as a setup man.
But in order to realize his dreams in a solid film, he needs a director, an older man from an upstanding background, with a talent for organization and structure that builds believability, a quality even more important in cinema than in literature.
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Mr. JOHN MCWHORTER (Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute): Well, you know, there was a grand period from the '20s into the 1960s when it was possible for a black man, or sometimes a woman, with no education to have a good solid job in an auto plant.
Man of the match Byrne enjoyed a solid display under the high ball against the Azzurri and produced a successful tactical kicking game.
Fully clothed and wrapped in a sleeping bag, the man's body was frozen solid as an ice cube.
He was now a rich man, in an Italian silk suit and with solid gold bracelets on his wrists.
But, mumble Mr Galbraith's opponents, why on earth should a solid citizen from Charlestown or Chelsea cast a vote for such a man?
The concept of flying around as a virtual Tony Stark has great potential, and there was plenty of time between Iron Man 2 and 3 to at least try to develop a solid game.
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Curiously, with those two players out, Woodson hasn't turned to 40-year-old big man Kurt Thomas, who is solid defensively, still rebounds well and has forever had a nice medium-range shot.
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