Word: approaching
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...short, sometimes being tougher on crime requires a softer approach like early release. But try explaining that in a 30-sec. ad in the next election cycle...
...growing numbers of tourists, scholars, journalists, businesspeople and even senior officials crossing the Strait in both directions have enabled China to better understand what makes Taiwan tick. Now Beijing's strategy is more nuanced. That's partly tactical: the hard-line approach was driving people to the DPP. But it's also an effort to win Taiwan hearts and minds and to show that China, too, is more complex than a caricature of a totalitarian state...
Hopkin, the subtle debater, conceded that today's factory farming practices are "unconscionable, and should not be permitted." Instead, he wondered whether better farming techniques could ever create a world in which eating meat was ethical. He advocated an approach to animal rights that focused on the social contract instead of utilitarianism, and on leveraging consumer power to work for better farming practices instead of abstaining from eating meat...
...Conservatives aired concerns about Sunstein’s public statements as an academic, particularly his comments in favor of granting some legal rights to animals. But the nomination also drew concerns from liberals who criticized Sunstein’s advocacy of a “cost-benefit” approach to environmental legislation. Sens. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.)—all from conservative or swing states—voted against the nomination, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) who caucuses with the Democrats, also voted against...
...social contract? Hopkin conceded that today’s factory farming practices are “unconscionable, and should not be permitted.” But he questioned whether better farming techniques could ever create a world in which eating meat was ethical. Instead, Hopkin advocated an approach to animal rights that focused on the social contract instead of utilitarianism, and on leveraging consumer power to work for better farming practices instead of abstaining from eating meat. Friedrich, however, argued by using quotations from vegetarians ranging from Paul McCartney to Leo Tolstoy to Cameron Diaz—who compared eating...