FAIR-MINDEDNESS and a willingness to acknowledge both sides of the argument are grave defects in a columnist.
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But there had to be willingness on both sides -- there has to be willingness on both sides to want the kind of balance that the American people demand.
The right level of risk is a factor of both ability and willingness to accept risk.
It is about the willingness of a responsible majority to do both.
News International's papers combine a lot of readers with a willingness to swing both ways.
The Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong.com poll comes as politicians face growing pressure to curb record federal deficits, and budget hawks of both parties have expressed a willingness to scale back Social Security, the government's biggest program.
But I think what comes out of Thursday will be predicated on a willingness by both sides to sit down and have face-to-face discussions and look for that commonality.
Now, bipartisanship depends on a willingness among both Democrats and Republicans to put aside matters of party for the good of the country.
Landing one of these gigs requires the right professional qualifications, a proven track record, and mutual availability both the willingness to transition on the part of an executive and an opening at a fund or portfolio company.
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The result is both a greater willingness to accept change and a prickly defensiveness on the part of those whose attitudes have changed the least.
While Clinton has incurred the ire of his own party's liberal wing for his willingness to sign GOP welfare reform legislation, Democrats, perhaps spooked by the prospect of Republicans in control of both legislative and executives branches, have rallied around their leader.
Of critical importance, and in contrast to both Hatoyama and Kan, Noda has evidenced a willingness to face down dissenters within the DPJ to push for now long-overdue Japanese participation in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade liberalization talks, and accession to a subsequent agreement.
And in both of their cases, there is no question that the downtown in the economy lessened corporate willingness to invest so heavily in celebrity endorsers.
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GoDaddy has found itself siding with law enforcement before, both in its controversial support of the Stop Online Piracy Act and this Congressional testimony affirming their willingness to take websites down even without an order from a judge.
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Indeed, one of the healthiest trends in British politics recently has been a new willingness in all the big parties to look across both the English Channel and the Atlantic for lessons on how public policy might be improved.
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