There was an upbeat resoluteness in our being, as individuals and as a group.

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Suddenly, that new year spirit, and the resoluteness along with it was gone.

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Yet Bush's resoluteness aside, there are people like Robert Gordon, president of investment firm Twenty-First Securities, musing that when it comes to taxes, the news from now on is likely to be unpleasant.

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Mr. CHERTOFF: And that perseverance and that resoluteness is the one critical key to our winning this war on terror, which is as we all know is not going to be resolved in 24 hours, or 24 weeks, or even 24 months.

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It spells corporate resoluteness.

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