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Inflating him was as simple as tacking the augmentative suffixes -one or -oni --as in Giacomoni --to the root name or its variation to get big James.
Now that Clinton staff attorney Lanny Breuer is invoking executive privilege to keep from having a Starr grand jury sit-down, the WP usefully documents the White House's legal tacking by quoting White House counsel Charles Ruff's comments from two months ago: "We have no intention of asserting the privilege, executive privilege, in any situation that I'm aware of."
They were at least in part the reaction of a decent and thwarted person tacking out in search of love and eminence.
I see candidates--some, anyway--really trying to stake out new middle ground; you see tacking and opportunistic positioning.
"Few See How Clinton Effort Will Bring Results," scoffed the New York Times . Pundits theorized that Clinton is triangulating back to the left after tacking to the right on welfare reform and the budget deal.