Word: abhor
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...million Americans have tried marijuana. That's a lot of people using a substance we all say we abhor. Before we can get any traction on controlling pot (which accounts for most of the rise in teen drug use), the generation that popularized the stuff has got to finally come clean about what made it so alluring in the first place--and then square that with current marijuana policy. A good start might be for every middle-aged public official in America to take the following oath...
...parents, Sharon and Thomas Leyden Sr., who say they raised their son to abhor racism, were horrified by his transformation. But when Sharon confronted him, she says, "it didn't work at all." They finally agreed he would not talk about "those things" at her house or bring his thuggish friends through her door. "He would just be my son," Sharon says. "I told him I believed people always come back to what they really are inside. And I knew what he was inside, and that he would be back...
Opponents of the line-item veto, which they contend is unconstitutional, abhor the unprecedented shift of power from Congress to the President. "The control of the purse [by Congress] is the foundation of our constitutional system of checks and balances," says Senator Robert Byrd, who is legendary for directing wasteful spending to West Virginia. Byrd predicts that Presidents will use the measure to blackmail members of Congress into rubber-stamping White House plans out of fear for their own pet projects. That worry isn't entirely off the wall--Presidents play politics too--but it's more likely that Congress...
Then there are those who try to make Farrakhan real, to see him calmly with eyes open. They say that while Farrakhan has undoubtedly gained stature from his successful organization of the Washington march, he is not nearly as threatening as his rhetoric makes him seem. "I abhor his racist and bigoted statements," says Laura Washington, the black editor and publisher of the Chicago Reporter, a newsletter on race relations. "They are counterproductive and unfair. But it's important for whites not to put too much stock in what he says." Loury says Farrakhan is "the leader of a black...
...Republicans think the alliance is a good idea. Some are worried that in its zeal to pass the contract, the leadership might be snuggling too close to the special interests that the all-important swing voters abhor. If the contract's tax cuts overtly favor corporations and the wealthy, says G.O.P. Representative Steve Schiff of New Mexico, "it will make us a sitting duck for those who argue that our party has capitulated to our [lobbying] allies." Democrats are already making the argument. "The Republicans are too close to business interests," charges Charles Schumer of New York. "That is their...