Others, led by the vice president's influential counsel, David S. Addington, advocated taking the most aggressive stance they felt they could defend, officials said.
Mr. DeMarcus sang James Brown's "I Got You (I Feel Good)," and Mr. Rooney offered the concert's most aggressive song: the Guess Who's "American Woman".
Many in Washington still feel that US corporations have been disproportionately cited among the most aggressive abusers of the current international tax rules.
Even in the most aggressive mode, the California's handling, though improved over its wandering predecessor, feels muted.
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Lest anyone feel too much compassion for the starlings, they are one of the most populous birds in the United States -- and one of the most aggressive.
Even the concert's most aggressive, insistent work, Bryan Jacobs's new "Play May Shay Fay Bay," a MATA commission, had a lucidity of texture that felt, well, delicate.
Zurich, has been among the most aggressive.
"It's the most aggressive of any minivan," Mr. Garner said.
