Over and over, Mr. Lew asserted his longtime budget bona fides and willingness to work with Republicans.
His selection of Marc V. Shaw, a veteran government official, and Dennis Walcott, longtime leader of the New York Urban League, demonstrated Mr. Bloomberg's willingness to assemble a broad-based team beyond his immediate circle.
But the charge glosses over a larger point: Clinton's vulnerability, longtime observers insist, is a tendency towards caution and incrementalism and a willingness to occasionally suppress beliefs out of perceived expediency.
She also said she was happy about the speaker's willingness to be open about her personal life; Ms. Quinn married her longtime partner, Kim M. Catullo, last year.
One does not need to be a longtime activist or health provider; all that matters is their story and the willingness to tell it.
One option: give Socks to a longtime friend, Ms. Currie, whom the cat befriended after discovering her dish of butterscotch and her willingness to cuddle.
Mr. Mourdock, who defeated the longtime Senator Richard G. Lugar in the Republican primary in Indiana, in part by casting Mr. Lugar's willingness to reach across the aisle as a personality flaw, is now working overtime to soften that position.
The new willingness of governments to pay big rewards "has changed the game," says Blum, a longtime advisor to Congress and the IRS on the offshore world.
Although Lee may have intended her comment to absolve Gingrich of responsibility for the debt left at AOF, other longtime Gingrich associates say that it is precisely this lack of financial involvement, coupled with his willingness to abandon initiatives abruptly, that lies at the core of his management problems.
He defends his willingness to leverage Toyota's economic capital by pointing to the tactics of Detroit companies, longtime powerhouses on the Washington scene.
