And talking straight to the American people about how we're going to solve these problems, and putting in the hard work of negotiations to get stuff done.
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The service, and the straight-talking Mr Bertolaso, a doctor who once managed hospitals in conflict zones, seemed to embody the best of Italy.
He was straight talking and one thing I always admired about him, he never changed his accent, which is very difficult living in a place like Belfast.
Mr. HECHT: She started talking to me and talking to me like 15 minutes straight.
College Bound and Gagged is the straight-talking survival guide for anyone (read: parents) who are trying desperately to navigate the pre-college time and remain sane in the process.
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He will be doing his homework straight away and will be talking about the impact on pre-season training.
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So we decided to ask, are the campaigns talking straight or not, and is all that truth squading really making a difference.
That may be a by-product of his straight-talking nature and his supreme confidence, which mean he sees no need to pull punches or partake in false modesty.
India's obsession with stars, as former Australian captain Ian Chappell argues, makes it difficult for selectors and the captain to do some straight talking to the legends.
And I'm not just talking about straight or gay here.
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It was designed as a symbol of communication, interaction and openness, ushered in by a straight-talking mayor with a businessman's bent.
Straight-talking Carrie, who led her pride and joy round the parade ring at Haydock as little daughter Hannah watched from her pushchair, may have fewer qualms.
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The Tories will have gambled that, more than anything, voters want straight talking from those who would govern them, and with a stable lead over Labour of ten points or more, they can afford to risk being a little less popular.
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Duncan, Ginobili and Parker have played their entire careers for the same delightfully straight-talking coach, Gregg Popovich.
By contrast, those who refuse to stoop to sanitised corporatese may cannily use their gaffes to burnish popular, straight-talking personas - as US Vice President Joe Biden and London Mayor Boris Johnson have managed to do.
She heard it, looked straight at us and, still holding the baby in her arms, started talking.
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Mark Murphy, the President and CEO of the Packers, is one of the smartest, honest, straight-talking team executives I have ever met.
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The new Woody Allen film stars Larry David as Boris Yellnikoff, an irate New Yorker who once had a beautiful wife and a serious reputation as a physicist. (Or so he tells us, talking straight to the camera.) Now he has a lousy apartment, no job unless you count chess tutoring and nobody to share his life except for a few cronies.
His rare pronouncements on the two main national issues of the past few weeks show him failing to use opportunities for straight talking: he was late in criticising Congress's Kosovo votes, and did little to lead public debate about gun laws and youth violence in the wake of the high-school killings in Littleton, Colorado.
More importantly, unlike Mr Haqqani, whether it is Pakistan's military or civilian leadership or the US administration, anyone dealing with her will have the confidence that she is just what she comes across as, a straight-talking politician rather than a career bureaucrat skilled in the art of double speak and intrigue.
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