With people who let you down, talk straight about your expectations for their performance and your hopes for their improvement.
Mr. Hurd will thrive working for Mr. Ellison if he quickly realizes that the Oracle co-founder prefers lieutenants who "think straight and talk straight, " one former Oracle executive said.
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He decided to create ads that delivered straight talk about money, responsibilities and death.
Fans of his bestselling books will be able to talk to characters straight off the page.
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In a world short of conviction politicians, Mr McCain's Straight Talk Express has its charms.
McCain, they felt comfortable giving him something he knows a lot about: straight talk.
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The McCain campaign tossed him under the Straight Talk Express, which was harsh but politically wise.
One of the hallmarks of McCain's Straight Talk campaigns has been his almost constant accessibility to media.
If Americans want straight talk and plain truth, they should take a good close look at John McCain.
Now, the wheels have fallen off the straight talk express and he is starting to say let's extend them.
This essay was eventually bundled into a 200-page book titled Serious Money: Straight Talk About Investing for Retirement.
Mr Ventura is another figure who prides himself on straight talk and whose policies borrow freely from left and right.
McCain has been doing a version of the Straight Talk show for so long that the veterans know all the lines.
He'll launch a bare-bones insurgent effort, traveling the state on his Straight Talk Express bus and numerous holding town hall meetings.
He hired a smart media guy in Mike Murphy, who was last seen riding shotgun on John McCain's Straight Talk Express.
One day on the Straight Talk, McCain discussed what he was reading.
He just can't seem to curb his unfortunate penchant for straight talk.
In a nutshell, he recommends purchasing a simple prepaid cell phone plan from Straight Talk or a regular monthly plan from T-Mobile.
For the 2008 campaign, the Straight Talk (as the McCain staff calls it) began as a state-of-the-art behemoth, as big as a tractor-trailer.
But the appeal is that - well, to use McCain's words - straight talk, that it doesn't always seem to be from the script.
In the months before Super Tuesday, on February 5th, the essential elements of the McCain campaign were the Straight Talk and the town-hall meeting.
Biden's broader goal is to make McCain and Palin's basic credibility an issue, thus damaging McCain's previous brand as a practitioner of straight talk.
In 2000, McCain upset then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary by touting "straight talk" and his record as a Republican maverick.
Yet, as of late, Mr. Straight Talk has finessed or flip-flopped his positions on immigration, offshore drilling, tax cuts and other issues to win his party's nomination.
But the bright people's enthusiasm for Mr McCain runs much deeper than this, and extends to those who have never set foot on the Straight Talk Express.
Such straight talk has brought Naftali Bennett much criticism from those inside and outside Israel who support the goal of a two-state solution (Israel and an independent Palestine living side-by-side).
Business voters like their straight talk and fiscal discipline.
With all of the conjecture about the true condition of state and local government finances and the likelihood of future municipal bond defaults, straight talk that you can trust comes at a premium.
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McCain's "Straight Talk" theme, his record as a Navy pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam and dogged campaigning led to a win in the New Hampshire primary that stunned the Bush camp.
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