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Many of the city's residents have criticized local pols for their decision to close the public library.
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O’Leary bashes the European pols’ cheerleading over Boeing’s stumbles
O’Leary’s reserving his most potent broadsides for the European statesmen crowing on how Boeing’s decline is boosting the fortunes of the European champion, Airbus.—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024 Such a fragile, thin-skinned pol doesn’t deserve to be in City Hall.—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024 There was no ingratiation, no name-check for the local pols.—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 The deposition would not be a day at the beach, but the investigators doing the questioning tend to be less demagogic than the pols performing at public hearings.—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024 Attacks by Washington pols only create unnecessary geopolitical tensions, and those, not the acquisition itself, could endanger American national security.—Wilbur Ross, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2024 Even Republican journalists don’t speak that bluntly, to say nothing of pols and their staff.—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023 The real menace isn’t posed by an elderly pol intent on protecting and renewing a democratic republic; it’s posed by a chaos agent who fomented insurrection and promises to return America to a state of misery.—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2023 But there are signs that even the progressive pols who run this troubled city are not content to allow a continuing doom loop of human degradation.—James Freeman, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2023
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