Word: alignement
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These actions should offend us all--no matter what groups or organizations we align ourselves with...
...pulpit before a packed house. But she is no ordinary minister: the church has been rented and the message is decidedly New Age nondenominational. Impeccably groomed and clad in designer clothes, the slender brunet launches into a sermon that mixes Christian exhortations, meditative slogans and psychotherapeutic advice: "Align your mind with God and watch miracles happen." Then she saunters down the nave to "share" with the audience. "Anytime you think someone owes you something, it's a limit on your happiness," she counsels a distressed young woman. Bowing her head in prayer, she intones, "God has the power to bring...
...Berkeley team got around that problem by "grabbing" the whirling buckyballs with atomic "handles" containing the element osmium. The handles enabled the scientists to manipulate billions of buckyballs and align them in an orderly, crystalline fashion. By bombarding the carbon samples with a thin beam of X rays, the Berkeley scientists got an accurate computer representation of the soccer ball-like arrangement of the atoms...
Washington's public reaction to the King's outburst was mild at first. President Bush said the Jordanians had "made a mistake to align themselves so closely with Saddam," but added that he had tried to understand the pressures on King Hussein. By the next day it was clear that the President, who last Christmas sent King Hussein a card bearing the inscription "I'm still your friend!," had lost his patience. The Jordanians, Bush said, "seem to have moved over, way over into Saddam Hussein's camp." That, he said, "complicates" U.S.-Jordanian relations. The White House announced that...
...much importance as the 28th Congress. It was supposed to mark the long-awaited - turning point, when reformers would finally seize control of party power from entrenched bureaucrats and release the brakes on radical change. Gorbachev would quit straddling the widening gap between the party's fractious wings and align himself once and for all with democratic liberals. There was also speculation that he might step down as General Secretary and devote full attention to his new presidential office, sealing the shift of power away from the party to the state...