Workers are increasingly in the catbird seat in negotiations with employers.
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No more political obscurity for them; they are in the ultimate catbird seat.
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But Mr. Trump certainly put Mr. Schumer in the catbird seat for the coming talks.
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The chef of the Catbird Seat in Nashville put his spin on the southern cookout staple.
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Michael Rogers found himself in both the catbird seat and the hot seat all at once.
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He did it to Bannon — he was in the doghouse, now he's in the catbird seat.
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"James is in the catbird seat, " said Katzenberg, co-founder of DreamWorks and former Disney studio chairman.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - As automakers race to a clean-energy future, Chile looked to be in the catbird seat.
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So we asked Erik Anderson of The Catbird Seat, who has perfected his own version of this morning classic.
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They could have taken Assad out, and because we did nothing, the Russians are in, and they're sitting in the catbird seat.
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But four weeks can be a lifetime in politics, and Cruz made clear he knows how precarious the catbird seat can be.
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However, though the GOP is firmly planted in the catbird seat, it would be prudent not to overreach or interpret the Nov.
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San Antonio point guard Mills has watched the revolution from the catbird seat since his league debut, for the Portland Trailblazers, in 2009.
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Incidentally, given that the US has emerged as the world's leading natural gas producer, the SDS would also put the US in the catbird seat, geopolitically.
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At any other time, a Republican president whose party had control of both chambers of Congress would be seen as sitting in the catbird seat for passing a big tax cut bill.
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Tuesday Test Kitchen dinners recently debuted at The Catbird Seat restaurant in Nashville, and Los Angeles-based celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck opened an experimental outpost, The Rogue Experience, in West Hollywood last month.
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That's probably why otherwise liberal technology executives are so negative about regulation: the problem is not regulation per se but rather the dysfunctional nature of what they see from their catbird seat in the new economy.
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Breakfast burritos are a tried-and-true friend to people who love getting drunk, and chef Erik Anderson of The Catbird Seat knows this, and has perfected his own version that has supreme and magical recovery powers.
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Yes, anything conceivably could happen between now and when the Democrats officially select their nominee next summer, but Biden is firmly entrenched in the catbird seat and will likely stay there barring a major turn of events.
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Washington (CNN)Congressional Democrats, benefiting from President Donald Trump's low approval ratings and historic trends working against the party in power, sit in the catbird seat in the battle for control, according to new House and Senate ratings from CNN.
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Read on for their view Their take is that China is either already in or on its way to the catbird seat when it comes to AI. "We do have sustainable differentiation, but China learns fast," Bart Riley, an advanced battery expert, told me.
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But many were clearly motivated by grudges and fears instilled by the party's civil war, and by a sense that even though Trump might represent a grave threat to their vision of Republicanism, it would still be better to serve under his rule for a season than to risk putting their hated intraparty rivals in the catbird seat.
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Here he is with a brand-new basketball league to promote, populated entirely by retired NBA players long past their primes, and the biggest combat sporting event in a decade not only just graced his venture with the star power of Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor but also put him in the catbird seat as far as negotiations are concerned.
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Penned by cookbook author J.J. Goode, myself, and the editors of MUNCHIES, this cookbook is both your glossary to stories from some of the best moments on the show—from that night Erik Anderson (formerly of Catbird Seat) drank more Fernet than we thought was humanly possible, to the time Enrique Olvera drunkenly made quesadillas with a sharp kitchen knife, something no one should ever recreate.
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Pickling is salvation — this was especially true before refrigeration, when we needed to eke out supplies to make it through the winter — a mantra newly embraced by chefs and diners across America, from the high-end, avant-garde Catbird Seat in Nashville to Gyst, a chicly low-key, self-proclaimed "fermentation bar" in Minneapolis, to the voraciously beloved Baroo, a tiny temple to the art of fermentation in an L.A. strip mall.
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The Oxford English Dictionary attributes the first recorded usage of the phrase catbird seat to this story.Thurber, J.G., The Catbird Seat, 55 Short Stories from New Yorker , November 14, 1942 Mrs. Barrows likes to use the phrase. Another character, Joey Hart, explains that Mrs.
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Barrows must have picked up the expression from the baseball broadcaster Red Barber, and that "sitting in the catbird seat" meant "'sitting pretty', like a batter with three balls and no strikes on him." The phrase "in the catbird seat" was among the numerous folksy expressions used by radio sports broadcaster Red Barber. According to Barber's daughter, after her father read Thurber's story, he began using the phrase "in the catbird seat". This seems to reverse events, however, as the passage of story quoted above clearly references Barber.
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According to "Colonel" Bob Edwards's book Fridays with Red, Barber claimed that Thurber got this and many other expressions from him, and that Barber had first heard the term used during a poker game in Cincinnati, during the Great Depression. Barber also put forth this version of events in his 1968 autobiography, Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat. On sailing ships, the catbird seat is the crow's nest, a lookout.
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"The Catbird Seat" is a 1942 short story by James Thurber. The story first appeared in The New Yorker on November 14, 1942. The story was also published in the 1945 anthology The Thurber Carnival.
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The Battle of the Sexes is a 1959 British black and white comedy film starring Peter Sellers and directed by Charles Crichton, based on the short story "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber. The story was adapted by Monja Danischewsky.
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Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past (Princeton University Press:Bollingen Series, New Jersey).McGuire, William (1988). "Ezra Pound and Bollingen Prize controversy," in Poetry's Catbird Seat (the consultantship in poetry in the English language at the Library of Congress, 1937–1987) (Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.). . Online version retrieved November 10, 2007.
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Barber is mentioned in "The Catbird Seat", a 1942 short story by James Thurber. A female character in the story likes to use the titular expression as well as such phrases as "tearing up the pea patch" and "hollering down the rain barrel", prompting another character to suggest that she picked them up from listening to Barber's Dodger radio broadcasts. (Ironically enough, according to Barber's daughter, her father did not begin using the "catbird seat" phrase until after he had read the story.) In 1957 Barber appeared as himself in "Hillbilly Whiz", a third-season episode of The Phil Silvers Show. In the 2013 film 42, which dramatizes Jackie Robinson breaking the major leagues' color barrier with the Dodgers, Barber is played by John C. McGinley.
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At the same ceremony Fienberg and the production staff were nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. He returned as an executive producer for the third and final season in 2006. He directed the episodes "True Colors" and "The Catbird Seat". Also in 2006 Fienberg served as a co-executive producer and unit production manager for the pilot of HBO polygamy drama Big Love.
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"Ezra Pound and Bollingen Prize controversy," in Poetry's Catbird Seat (the consultantship in poetry in the English language at the Library of Congress, 1937-1987) (Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.). . Online version retrieved November 10, 2007. In 1950, the Bollingen Prize was continued under the auspices of the Yale University Library, which awarded the 1950 prize to Wallace Stevens. In 1968, the Foundation became inactive.
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According to Douglas Harper's Online Etymological Dictionary, the phrase refers to the gray catbird and was used in the 19th century in the American South. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first documented use occurred in a 1942 humorous short story by James Thurber titled "The Catbird Seat", which features a character, Mrs. Barrows, who likes to use the phrase. Another character, Joey Hart, explains that Mrs.
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McGuire, William (1988). Poetry's Catbird Seat: The Consultantship in Poetry in the English language at the Library of Congress, 1937–1987 (Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.). . The Library minimizes assigned duties, to allow incumbents to pursue their own projects while at the Library. The laureate presents an annual lecture and reading of his or her poetry and usually introduces poets at the Library's poetry series, the oldest in the Washington area and among the oldest in the United States.
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James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker and collected in his numerous books. Thurber was one of the most popular humorists of his time and celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. His works have frequently been adapted into films, including The Male Animal (1942), The Battle of the Sexes (1959, based on Thurber's "The Catbird Seat"), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (adapted twice, in 1947 and in 2013).
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It is not proven that the CIA was told in advance of the exact timing of the successful February 1963 coup, but longtime CIA officer Harry Rositzke later claimed "the CIA's major source, in an ideal catbird seat, reported the exact time of the coup and provided a list of the new cabinet members." Another former CIA official has stated that he was working with Archie Roosevelt, Jr. on a separate plan to instigate a military coup against Qasim, which was rendered moot by the latter's assassination. This official "denied any involvement in the Ba'ath Party's actions." His CIA work earned him a Distinguished Intelligence Medal and a Trailblazer Award.
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After his dismissal by the Yankees in 1966, Barber retired from baseball broadcasting. He wrote several books, including his autobiography, Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat; contributed to occasional sports documentary programs on radio and television, including Ken Burns' documentary Baseball; and from 1981 until his death made weekly contributions to National Public Radio's Morning Edition program. Each Friday Barber, speaking from his home in Tallahassee, Florida, would talk with host Bob Edwards, usually about sports but frequently about other topics, including the flora around his home. Barber would address Edwards as "Colonel Bob", referring to the Kentucky Colonel honorific given to Edwards by his native state.
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Prior to the 1953 World Series, Barber was selected by Gillette, which sponsored the Series broadcasts, to call the games on NBC along with Mel Allen. Barber wanted a larger fee than was offered by Gillette, however, and when Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley refused to back him, Barber declined to work the Series and Vin Scully partnered with Allen on the telecasts instead. As Barber later related in his 1968 autobiography, Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat, he was rankled by O'Malley's lack of support, and this - along with a dispute over the renewal of Barber's $50,000 a year contract - led to his departure from the Dodgers' booth later that October. Soon afterward the crosstown Yankees hired Barber.
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There is a reference to Hakim Sanai's poetry near the end of the 2017 film The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro. In the final scene of the movie, the narrator recites a few verses of poetry without specific attribution, although there is a reference in the film's credit sequence to "Adapted works by Hakim Sanai." Researching for the Library of Congress blog From the Catbird Seat, Peter Armenti confirmed with the assistance of Catbird blog readers that the poem spoken at the end of The Shape of Water is del Toro's adaptation of Priya Hemenway's translation of an original poem by Hakim Sanai. Hemenway's translation appears in The Book of Everything: Journey of the Heart’s Desire : Hakim Sanai’s Walled Garden of Truth (2002).
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Jimmie Johnson won the race. McMurray led the field to the restart on lap 153 but he spun the tires and gave the lead back to Johnson. Johnson gave up the lead to make his final stop on lap 165 and gave the lead back to Jamie McMurray, with the lead changing hands seven times – passing to Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Kurt Busch, Kahne, Larson, Austin Dillon, Tony Stewart and Matt Kenseth – before Johnson retook the lead with ten laps to go and scored his third win of the 2014 season and first at Michigan. Johnson reflected upon this in a post-race interview, stating that he "had figured out every way to lose this race" and that he "knew we were in the catbird seat and were able to take advantage of it".
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His best-known short stories are "The Dog That Bit People" and "The Night the Bed Fell"; they can be found in My Life and Hard Times, which was his "break-out" book. Among his other classics are The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Catbird Seat, A Couple of Hamburgers, The Greatest Man in the World, If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox. The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze has several short stories with a tense undercurrent of marital discord. The book was published the year of his divorce and remarriage. His 1941 story "You Could Look It Up","You Could Look It Up", The Saturday Evening Post, April 5, 1941, pp. 9–11, 114, 116 about a three-foot adult being brought in to take a walk in a baseball game, is said to have inspired Bill Veeck's stunt with Eddie Gaedel with the St. Louis Browns in 1951.
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The same year Marjoe was published, Gaines became editor of Circus, a national teeny-bopper rock and roll magazine, and he also began a six-year run as the "Top of the Pop" columnist for the New York Sunday News, on alternate Sundays, dual positions that gave him a catbird seat in the fast lane of the rock and roll business during the golden era of the seventies. Gaines spent a year on the road living with Alice Cooper, and in 1976 he published "Me, Alice," by Alice Cooper with Steven Gaines, the first autobiography of a rock star. Published only in hardcover, the book has since become a collectors' item and sells for up to $2500 a copy. In 1980 Gaines met Robert Jon Cohen, a 21-year-old Studio 54 bartender, with whom he collaborated on a book called The Club, a thinly-veiled roman a clef about Studio 54.
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While there have been persistent rumors that the CIA orchestrated the coup, declassified documents and the testimony of former CIA officers indicate there was no direct American involvement, although the CIA was actively seeking to find a suitable replacement for Qasim within the Iraqi military and the U.S. had been notified of two aborted Ba'athist coup plots in July and December 1962.Longtime CIA officer Harry Rositzke later claimed "the CIA's major source, in an ideal catbird seat, reported the exact time of the coup and provided a list of the new cabinet members," but this remains unverified. See Despite evidence that the CIA had been closely tracking the Ba'ath Party's coup planning since "at least 1961," the CIA official working with Roosevelt to instigate a military coup against Qasim, and who later became the head of the CIA's operations in Iraq and Syria, has "denied any involvement in the Ba'ath Party's actions," stating instead that the CIA's efforts against Qasim were still in the planning stages at the time.
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