Candidate Clinton feels different, political analysts and media observers say, from the workaday secretary of state who filled that office from 2009 to 2013 or from the more timidly progressive candidate voters got to know in 2008 – one whose presumptuous designs on the general election left her vulnerable on the left in the primary.
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The White House said Mr. Bush's role would be as a mediator, willing to weigh in on the negotiations when necessary, but leaving the workaday details of American diplomacy to his secretary of state, Ms. Rice.
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Publicity for Spooks, the BBC's latest offering about the world of intelligence, claims that it captures the workaday realism of a job at the heart of Britain's secret state.
There, a 2-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine – the kind of workaday motor powering the Volkswagen Golf and its ilk – exists in a batty state of tune, rated at 355 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque.
This argument is the most interesting (and contentious) part of Mr Jacques's book, rather than his workaday account of Chinese history or the overlong prose about China being a "civilisation state" rather than a "nation state .The parting of ways between Europe and China came, in his view, not with the Renaissance or the Enlightenment but with the industrial revolution.
In a post-political age, writers are more likely to be enthused by exquisite states of consciousness or the intricacies of personal relationships than by more workaday matters; and the aloof, fastidious James, a man famously described as chewing more than he could bite off, appears to fill this bill exactly.
Many expressed concern that state laws designed to go after high-flying crime lords are routinely targeting the workaday homes, cars, cash savings, and other belongings of innocent people who are never charged with a crime.
Overarching these workaday concerns is the shadow of a federal investigation to find whether there are links between the awarding of state contracts and gifts and favors received by Mr. Rowland from people doing business with the state.
