Blair privately called Thatcher "unhinged", a description that later became public knowledge.

"Pumpheads," some doctors privately call those patients, and the information shows that a third or more may be affected.

High-profile analysts had put "buy" ratings on the stocks of companies that they privately called "pigs."

They also avoid what the partners privately call "drunken sailor" prices.

Public health workers privately call Africa's growing illegal abortion problem an epidemic.

What Miller calls individualism, his coaches and teammates sometimes privately call selfishness.

And what does Corporate America privately call this special form of life insurance?

What he calls consensus building a few of his critics privately call badgering.

The Council did not discuss the letter today, although some members privately called the idea of sending a larger force unrealistic.