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The WP coverage of the presidential press conference--accompanied by a picture of a pugnacious double-fisted Clinton--reports that he dismissed allegations about his character as the work of organized foes "unable to counter his ideas or record," but acknowledged that seven years of their attacks have diminished his personal standing with the American people.
Pugnacious new CNN boss Rick Kaplan was hired from ABC to boost the network's sagging peacetime ratings.
Ralph Reed's retirement from the Christian Coalition has made the pugnacious Bauer the leading social-conservative activist.
When, in 1835, a would-be assassin pointed his pistol at Andrew Jackson, the pugnacious president simply charged at the assailant, brandishing his cane.
In a shrewd section on Washington in his new book, The Future Once Happened Here , Fred Siegel suggests that the city would have done well to have had a pugnacious tabloid or two like New York's.