Word: approaches
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With the new approach, the 450-member council hopes to meet at least some conditions the United States has set for dealing with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). The Arab League formed the council in 1964, but it has assumed the role of a PLO legislature...
...confrontational approach has also broughtmore student attention to the issue than SWAT has,Zellweger said. She said that by upsetting people,ZIP's posters will make them rethink the clubs...
Inspired by the increase in drug-related violence, the new law takes a unique approach to controlling "Saturday-night specials." Starting in 1990, a nine-member board made up of representatives of pro-and anti-gun groups and law-enforcement agencies would compile a list of guns that could be sold legally. Firearms not on the list would be prohibited, and violators caught manufacturing or selling the weapons would be fined up to $10,000 a gun. While the law aims to eliminate only weapons with no "socially useful purpose," opponents claim that it would amount to a sweeping...
...Americans want a return to an activist Government that boldly addresses domestic problems, or do they prefer a more cautious, reactive and less ambitious approach...
Most mapmakers devise projections with mathematics -- and nowadays the computer. But Robinson, who is considered the dean of U.S. cartographers, decided to take a different approach. "Mapmaking is as much an art form as a science," he argues. Thus he began by visualizing the way each country ought to look on a map, then turned to mathematics to delineate its shape. "What I really did," says Robinson, "was create a portrait of the earth...