In the hours after his gold-medal swim Monday morning, Lezak's cellphone was inundated with messages — more than 80 in all — and the glad tidings followed him everywhere he surfaced.
If, by the end of that, Obama was feeling a little ragged from all the glad-handing, he could have cheered himself up with the thought this was nowhere near as onerous as in past presidencies.
A few days earlier the price had fallen, briefly, to below $50 a barrel for the first time since May 2005.Amid all the glad-handing and schnapps at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the prospect was raised of an effort to revive the stalled Doha round of trade talks.
Gordon knows there will be no honeymoon period for him, and all the intrusion of the Tory press will focus on him and his family, just as they have on Cherie and the kids.' With all the glad-handing and power-eating over, Livingstone gave a final soundbite interview to ITV on the steps of one of Shanghai's glittering five-star hotels.
Throughout all the glad-handing, plainspokenness and threats, Siemens' workers have never staged a major strike on von Pierer's watch.
Mr. Muti, by virtue of his Philadelphia experiences, knows all about the glad-handing and schmoozing that accompany the American orchestra's constant effort to raise money from individuals, foundations and corporations.
Our journey began at Shinjuku Station, a sprawling, swarming hub that made us all the more glad to leave Tokyo.
If I weren't expected to blog about it, I might even have put the novel aside, which makes me all the more glad that I'm doing this series.
"I'm sure all the readers will be glad to hear that I have had a reply and all is rosy in my life again," says Matt Warner, whose email started this whole debate.
Yeah, and I see him doing it all the time…I'm glad now that we're living at in his dad's that it's an outside thing.
Several New Jersey chefs who have appeared on reality-TV cooking shows said they had also felt challenged, though all were glad for the experience, they said.
