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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Friday, May 04, 2007

Nice Work

(Fox News) - The World Bank — nice work if you can get it. While some at the bank continue to call for the scalp of President Paul Wolfowitz because he helped his girlfriend get a transfer to a high-paying State Department job — The Wall Street Journal reports almost 1,400 bank employees have salaries higher than the $183,000/year earned by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

17 percent of the bank's 10,000 employees are in a salary bracket that ranges from $170,000 to 232,000. And — for the many non-Americans who work at The World Bank — those salaries are tax-free.

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