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...unfit for the office replied to the attacks with measured military might, routing the Taliban regime and liberating Afghanistan from the grip of medieval oppression. Most of the free world - and most of the Islamic world - approved of the action. Fears of widespread civilian casualties and a massive Muslim backlash failed to materialize...
...POINT OF SERVICE: Similar to a PPO, a POS plan is frequently run by an HMO but has less restrictive rules--another response to the consumer backlash against HMOs. The difference is that if your doctor refers you to a specialist outside its network of providers, the POS will pick up most, if not all, of the charges...
...perhaps more important, by ballyhooing them in the popular press--the company may have shot itself in the foot. The blast of publicity may win ACT bragging rights and pull in much needed investment to fuel the company's research. But if the hoopla triggers a harsh anticloning backlash, it might dash whatever hopes ACT had of actually saving lives...
...Ashcroft had taken the Bush Administration's more controversial initiatives to Capitol Hill, he might have avoided some of the backlash. But while Congress was passing the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Attorney General was writing far-reaching rules of his own and issuing them through the Federal Register. "We felt that we had been asked for and had given the Administration the tools it needed to fight terrorism," says Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin. Its unhappiness at being kept in the dark is the reason the Senate Judiciary Committee called Ashcroft in this week to explain himself...
...particular brand of fundamentalism, a tenet that has attracted many who harbor resentment towards the United States. It is also true that radical cultural change imposed by external powers is often highly destructive to the social fabric of a nation. Witness the extreme opposition and cultural backlash to Soviet Communist rule in Afghanistan, for instance, a backlash that fed the fervor of the mujahudeen, of which the Taliban were a part...