Word: approaches
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Berkowitz says he saw no reason to approach Garber or Doherty, who are the school's designated contacts for affirmative action complaints...
That coolness is partly a reflection of Barak's unsentimental approach to peace. Rarely has he addressed the Palestinian people directly or acknowledged their rights and aspirations. Says a close aide: "It's not about granting the Palestinians justice but about promoting our own interests." Even for Rabin, the dry, old combatant who could hardly be accused of excessive emotion, the negotiations weren't just about that. While he acted principally out of Israel's interest, Rabin had concluded that the peace process was also a moral imperative. But he was at the end of a long career, confident...
These measures are the wrong way to approach preventing another tragedy like the one in Littleton. Juveniles are uniquely receptive to rehabilitation and should not be imprisoned with hardened criminals. Kids who commit heinous crimes must be punished, but they must also be allowed to have a future. The harsher sentencing of juveniles as adults is not a proven deterrent and puts impressionable youngsters in contact with those least likely to help them re-integrate into society...
...suits against it (others have already been filed in several cities, including Chicago and Miami). "The defense of such lawsuits will be very expensive," says Cohen, "and the gun industry is not as wealthy as the tobacco industry." As a result, he says, "expect more of a compromising approach from the gun industry" as the legal broadside heats...
...with the approach of the year 2000 and the end of his second term, Yeltsin has become a prisoner of his own nightmares--that he and his family will be persecuted or prosecuted by political enemies once he leaves office, that the sort of slights and humiliations he has inflicted on others will be visited upon him. He has plenty to fear. The sight of deputies accusing an incumbent President of high treason is a worrying reminder of how bad things could be for him when he leaves office. And impeachment was not his first nasty fright. Just two months...