Word: arsenal
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...dealing with a recalcitrant North Korea, the Bush Administration might learn something from John F. Kennedy who, as a young President facing the formidable Soviet threat, said: "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." In its morbid fear of whatever nuclear arsenal North Korea may possess, the Bush Administration has been overly cautious about negotiating with North Korea, which, not unreasonably, is petrified of U.S. intentions and military strength following the Iraq war. With the greater fear in Pyongyang, the U.S. should refrain from issuing statements that only startle Kim, meanwhile putting aside...
...colleagues told TIME that following the U.S. attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, he railed against the West and its operations against the Muslim community. After the U.S. imposed sanctions on Pakistan for its nuclear test, Khan became convinced that the U.S. was bent on destroying Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, its main weapon against India's far mightier army...
...billion, equivalent to 7.5% of all corporate earnings. Defenders of the status quo say that such bloated pay provides managers--particularly CEOs--with incentives crucial to high performance. Those defenders have not yet read Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's Pay Without Performance. The authors marshal a formidable arsenal of facts to pick apart the incentives argument, exposing myriad ways in which CEOs have decoupled pay from performance and hidden that fact from investors with the aid of supine corporate directors. The lucidly argued treatise frames the issue not in ethical terms but as a problem of efficiency...
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...face of those grim numbers, the medical and pharmacological communities are scrambling. Drug companies are rolling out new medications to join the arsenal of blood-pressure drugs already on the shelves. Physicians are routinely checking pressure in younger and younger patients. Public-health officials are launching new information campaigns, trying to raise public awareness in the hope of getting to the at-risk population before it's too late. Such large-scale mobilization may be the only way to get the problem back in check. "There's good evidence hypertension can be controlled," says Dr. Darwin Labarthe, acting chief...