Word: approach
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...there a draft?The answers to these questions I do not intend to address here—not only because I’m still pondering them, but because I’m pondering a wider arc.Using the playoff system, the sports seem to favor a quintessentially American approach to competing—a fierce one-off battle between two enemies, clearly defined, with a winner-takes-all scenario. Watching television coverage of these gargantuan clashes can also be an arduous process. Lobotomized by the tedium of repetitive advertisements almost every ten minutes, lectured with empty platitudes by commentator sharks...
...Rather than establishing a franchised medical center in the Middle East, we want to help Dubai develop its own academic medical center,” says Mills. “We believe it’s a more robust approach...
...David E. Golan ’75, dean for graduate education at HMS, finds that taking such an approach gets local practitioners and researchers more invested in the project, and also allows for easier communication among them. Harvard-affiliated physicians will be brought in to teach, but any medical program that is eventually offered will be based around University Hospital rather than HMS. However, many of these programs are still only in the planning stage...
...Opponents aren't buying any of this. They say that such an approach is a violation of international law that's tantamount to torture, and that whatever chunks of actionable intelligence it dislodged were dwarfed by the damage done to the U.S. image and reputation around the world. In addition, many of the Bush Administration's prosecutions of purported terrorists - announced with great fanfare as key victories in the war on terror - ultimately fell apart because of the suspect methods used to extract confessions. "I believe that our nation is stronger and more secure when we deploy the full measure...
...military - as well as the European and NATO officials attempting to smash the pirate networks - the shipping companies' business-as-usual approach works against military strategy. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said as much, when he appealed to companies to stop paying ransoms, during a speech at the naval war college in Newport, Rhode Island on Friday. "Clearly, if they didn't pay the ransoms, we would be in a stronger position," he said...