Word: abortively
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...much the U.S. says the war against Iraq is a project to build a model of freedom and democracy for the whole Middle East, Arabs and Muslims know better. America's history in the area-backing Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, supporting authoritarian regimes and even intervening to abort potential democratic movements in the region-does not make credible its role of liberator. Mona Wagdy Cairo...
...Endeavour - one more catastrophic accident would mean the program could not support enough flights to keep the space station operating. And an orbital space plane would share many of the same limitations as the shuttle. What if a rocket were about to explode and the commander tried to abort at supersonic speed? The force would simply rip the wings off a space plane. And leaving one docked to the station for months at a time, the way Soyuz lifeboats are today, would expose its thermal tiles and wingpanels, essentially the same system that failed on Columbia, to hits from space...
...government policy?and that individuals' health and welfare come second. One text, Analyzing Ethics in Clinical Cases, neatly files down the horns of a familiar dilemma. On page 24, the authors present the case of a seven-month-pregnant peasant woman who is forced by family-planning officials to abort. She submits, but the baby survives. When the woman refuses to let the doctors "dispose" of her infant son, the book says practitioners should "act according to the one-child policy... [and] point out that because medical abortions can affect a child's normal development, she should abandon" her protests...
...other contexts, have acted extremely well), goes without saying. But it is probably more productive to wonder why the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, understandably attracted to the flashy high-concept behind Chess (and mind you, it could have turned out great) didn’t step in to abort the venture before the debacle could unfold before a paying audience. Mainstage productions, though they rarely gel, should nonetheless be held to high standards, and a stalemate like Chess should probably have been forfeited in its early moves...
...Darwinian outlook took root among the clan machinations of his native Tikrit, during the years when Arab nationalism began to flower. Freud would have had a field day with Saddam's tortured relationships with his family, including, Post says, a suicidal mother who tried to abort him. Saddam's father died before he was born, and after his mother married a man who brutalized Saddam, the illiterate 10-year-old went to live with his maternal uncle Khairallah Talfah, an ardent nationalist and embittered former army officer who came out on the losing side during a 1941 struggle for power...