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We have found no evidence that such a long-term political-military approach for using Special Operations Forces in the region was proposed to or analyzed by the Small Group, even though such capability had been honed for at least a decade within the Defense Department.
In her words, “Besides rendering a Chicano pinto presence in the rhythms of speech, Santana [the movie character] represents it in the stylized walk and prose of a pinto, a stance honed in the corridors behind prison walls or in the barrios of East L.A.” (1993, 130).
And why do those pictures always feel as if they've been honed with the help of focus groups in suburban shopping malls to ensure that no aspect will be jarring to the middlest of middle-class viewers?
The kind of SLATE I was coming to enjoy reading was one that would rip the Wall Street Journal apart using facts, ideas, and finely honed reasoning.
That may be good strategy for an economy losing manufacturing jobs (a strategy honed for decades by New Orleans), but that's a fickle crowd to keep happy.