THE QUESTION OF INFLUENCE -- Critics of the influence of money in politics have long complained that the only real way to get a place at the table is to buy one, and Vice President Al Gore seemed to edge up on a similar assessment this week in his remarks to a mostly black crowd of first- and second-generation immigrants from Africa at a $1,000-per-person 1,000-per-person 1,000-per-person
Many analysts avoid making negative remarks in assessments because favorable opinions make it easier for their firms to win investment banking business from the companies that they follow, the critics say.
Mr. Lamy's remarks reflected assessments by some European trade experts that after the American retreat on steel, the power balance of global trade had shifted in Europe's favor.
Of all the candidates, though, the retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was perhaps the most scathing in his assessment of the President's remarks.
His remarks echo the assessment of the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, who said this week that danger of a "substantial downturn" in the economy had receded.
The Guardian published an article about Neville's remarks, highlighting his assessment that Britain's use of CCTV was "an utter fiasco".
He has been straightforward with his attacking talisman, encouraging him not through coddling, but with honest assessment in the form of remarks such as: "If Higuaín doesn't win the Ballon d'Or, he's a dickhead".
That assessment seemed at odds with remarks by Reinhard Brunkhorst, a specialist in Hamburg, who said, "The situation seems to have calmed somewhat, as far as the number of new infections is concerned".
Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald of Story County, Iowa, delivered that assessment on Tuesday in blistering remarks to his colleagues at a meeting of the board of FirstNet, the First Responder Network Authority, created by Congress to oversee the building of the system.
It is unclear how recent the new assessment may be, but Mr. Gates' remarks, made just an hour after he met with Hu Jintao, China's president, may have been partly intended to convince China that the Obama administration no longer regards the North as a concern only in the region.
