The problem is that the word compromise, once a ten-letter word, has become a four-letter word among many of the more extreme Republicans who have entered the House of Representatives and the Senate over the past few elections.
Government ministers, union leaders and people running big airports can look after themselves even if they may be taken aback by Mr O'Leary's typically four-letter-word abuse.
That may be a four-letter word, but the two initiatives it encapsulates can lay the foundation for IT advancement among the have-nots.
"The laugh is just as strong as if I put in the four-letter word, " Mr. Cosby says.
And Sandahl says any new development would create more sprawl, which is a four-letter word to state planners.
At a time when "risk" is the dirtiest four-letter word on Wall Street, such skills have made RiskMetrics a hot commodity.
"Pivot to me is not a four-letter word, " says Tony Conrad, a partner in the early-stage venture capital firm True Ventures.
Mr. WYSS: With the rising foreclosures and delinquencies in the subprime market, they got reminded that risk is still a four-letter word.
In one instance, Cringely asked whether there's a hidden meaning when Jobs uses a nasty four-letter word to describe his employees' subpar work.
In his words before the council, Emanuel repeatedly, emphatically distinguished the Trust from the parking meter deal, a four-letter word in this town.
"The Maloofs are a four-letter word in Sacramento, " said Carmichael Dave, a sports radio commentator who is driving an RV to NBA cities across the country to campaign for his city's cause.
As I was saying, the reason I feel comfortable using that four-letter word, love, is because the two women are doing a Valentine's Day show at Stage 72 on the Upper West Side that evening.
"As any golfer who has watched his partner shank a short approach knows, it would be absurd to accept the suggestion that the resultant four-letter word uttered on the golf course describes sex or excrement and is therefore indecent, " he wrote.
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We know the following to be true: microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS) technology can foster some very inventive gadgetry, and it's a wonderful four-turn, 45-point Scrabble word (barring special tiles and presuming an abnormally-large board).
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But we are no closer to discovering whether the accused is guilty or innocent of the central charge - using a four letter word to an officer of the law.
Indeed, Obama used the word "crisis" four times in his speech -- one more time than he used the word perhaps most closely identified with him: Hope.
For their studies, the team studied the characteristics of word order in four language families: Indo-European, Uto-Aztec, Bantu and Austronesian.
Already, she has racked up four "good customer-contact reports" from satisfied callers who put in a good word with her supervisor.
We use four-letter functionals now and then (but only where no other, five-letter word will suffice).
Each EP - which also comes with a free download code - will have four tracks, where one must be an instrumental and another should contain spoken word.
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