triage

[Dave Wilton]

Maybe she meant to say "hemorrhage" and the wrong word came out, or she
wasn't paying close attention to the teleprompter and misidentified the
word.


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 > Change, or just someone who has a poor vocabulary, but did watch reruns
of MASH?

Ultimately perhaps a distinction without a difference. Surely Ashley knows
words like "disaster" and "train wreck" and "financial flopperoo."

JL

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