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On “State of the Union,” Santos bristled when Bash asked him if he felt he was given “favorable treatment” for being a “loyal ally” to the president.

She still bristles at his impenitence in poaching her long-ago words and deeds for what she calls his “Little Girl Stories,” but she has a more nuanced view of the complicated man who raised her.

“Whenever you have two militaries bristling that close together, there could be real action,” said Christopher Sabatini, a senior fellow for Latin America at the think tank Chatham House.

Bureaucrats have bristled at the term as misleading and demeaning.

Still, some second-quarter corporate earnings calls with investment analysts this summer bristled with braggadocio about the tax cuts they were expecting to pocket, courtesy of the budget bill.