His cautious line on health care, which some say is too soft on doctors and nurses, encourages this view, as does his rejection of a big-picture vision of foreign policy in favour of case-by-case pragmatism.
Mr Brahimi said he hoped for a diplomatic opening soon, and his staff say he is working on a peace plan.
And so now he can, on his own, say now is the time to move on, because otherwise he might have wanted to have gone four months ago.
Union leaders say Bloomberg is turning his back on workers, and some mayoral candidates say he's leaving a pricey problem for the next administration.
He denies any involvement, and campaigners on his behalf say there is no physical evidence linking him to the crime, and the case rests on testimony provided by a co-accused as part of a plea agreement.
Mr Thune wants to say his rival is generally weak on national-security issues.
Analysts say Morsi is focusing his campaign on appealing to the broadest possible audience.
Mr Suharto himself is due to go on trial for corruption on August 31st, although his lawyers say he is now too ill to attend court.
Yo-Yo likes to say that his goal is to take listeners on a trip with him and make a lasting connection.
That should have allowed the PM to say he is moving on his pledge to transform the troubled banking system and make other necessary changes to revive the nation's moribund economy.
But Mr Netanyahu and his coalition partners on the hard right say that is too generous.
Mr Mbeki's supporters say that he is merely stamping his authority on a party that he leads already.
When asked when Home would start rolling out to more phones, Mosseri wouldn't give us a timetable, but he did say that for now, his team is focused on improving the Home platform as opposed to putting home on more kinds of hardware.
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It is too early to say whether Mr Sarkozy is a failure at home: thanks to his doublespeak on so many issues, we will only know on his last day in office whether he was a reformer using populism to change France, or just another French ruler in hock to the country's vested corporatist interests, and paralysed by fear of public opinion.
Gerry suffered a heart attack last year and is planning his retirement, and the brothers say none of their children is likely to take the business on.
President Chavez's electoral success (he lost only one nationwide vote) did not rest, it is safe to say, on his foreign policy.
Mr Cable also used his speech to say the government is refocusing its industrial policy on supporting key sectors of the economy, such as aerospace, the car industry and science.
On the other hand, his honchos say he is redeploying his assets for portfolio diversification and that he remains committed to Clearwire and its future.
His friends say he is a latter-day Teddy Roosevelt, a man on whom he consciously models himself.
His aides say he is currently out of the country and unavailable for comment on the inspector's report.
He goes on to say that his reason for studying the brain is because it is what determines the ways humans interact with the world.
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Still, aides close to the Obama transition team say the president-elect is on track to nominate his former rival to the secretary of state post next week.
The sensation, say the researchers, is indeed like being the Silver Surfer on his ride.
Rumours say that Gerhard Puttfarcken, boss of Airbus Deutschland, is on his way out.
Mr. DIONNE: And I think David puts his finger on something, which is if he did come out and say it's 18 months, I think there'd be more opposition to it from other quarters.
Not to worry, say officials, now everything is "normal" and Farooq is on his way.
All we can say for sure is that Guyotat is dressed as if he were on his way somewhere else.
How much Manchester United actually works on those situations is hard to say, because Ferguson runs his practices as if they were CIA briefings.
It is not an understatement to say that the success of his second term will depend on whether he finds a way to build a coalition of those moderates.
His aim is to put on a show in which the vast majority of Britons can say they found "something of themselves".
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