Ejemplos de uso de tie-pin
1. Of course, Rumsfeld couldn‘t have given a tie pin to Chavez, because he‘s taken to not wearing ties, opting instead for Fidel Castro ‘s favorite olive–drab line of formal wear.A Failure to Communicate Speaking of Donald Rumsfeld, he‘s joined the chorus of administration officials decrying the inability of the United States to communicate its policies to the rest of the world.
2. Even though Matthews is not eligible for comp time, she keeps meticulous track on her time sheets of "actual hours worked," including fractions –– "11.75" or "13.16" or "13.66" –– and weekly totals.Pinning Down a Likely Story There is a story floating around the Pentagon of a recent exchange in Brussels between Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Ivanov . Ivanov, by this account, had some time ago given Rumsfeld a tie pin in the form of a Kalashnikov rifle, and in Brussels asked Rumsfeld what happened to it.