Word: appealing
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...surfing can be the medium's primary appeal. There is a seemingly limitless amount of information to be explored...
...improvement in the sad economic shape of the Gaza Strip would help limit the appeal of Hamas -- which is why Palestinian officials, backed by the U.S. and Israel, will lobby international donors this week in Brussels to give the Palestinian Authority significant funding. Foreign aid is especially important now, since, as Khaled Abdul-Shafi, a Gaza economist, notes, "what happened last Friday reduces the chances of private investment to zero...
...Supreme Court refused to reconsider a ruling that lets police use deadly force against people who try to escape from custody while awaiting a criminal trial, effectively saying it is constitutional to shoot at even unarmed fugitives. Without comment, the justices turned away an appeal in a Houston case that argued against shooting "pretrial detainees." The incident involved Roland Brothers Jr., a Texas man arrested in 1998 for auto theft, who was shot by sheriff's deputies while trying to escape. His family sued, claiming the act was unconstitutional. Today's decision resolved a nine-year-old legal contradiction...
While granting the bulk of Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64's appeal of Zobel's ruling, Armstrong refused to give his opinion on whether the conduct of the referenda violated the state constitution...
Armstrong decided to grant the state's appeal, stating that certification "will not, if allowed to occur, impair the plaintiffs' ability to maintain their challenge" on constitutional grounds...