Word: bestows
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...None of the above: Milosevic's charisma faded sometime during the Bosnian war and from then on, he ruled by fear, bribery and skillful political maneuvering. Now that he is no longer in a position to intimidate or bestow gifts, he has discovered, like many autocrats before him, that all the support is suddenly gone...
...major compositions, paintings and literary works of the twentieth century provides a convenient and heavy-handed way of getting at these themes and questions, although the highly improbable scenario has a certain forced, unreal tone. Instead of making an insightful comment on how we define artistic greatness and bestow fame, it actually takes something away from the ambitious discussion of our desire for those things. The precarious arrangement behind which Scott has hidden his genius from the outside world is all about to come undone, two days before Scott’s 183rd birthday. In pursuit of relative peace...
...while it is one thing to do business with China in the hopes of effecting the eventual fall of Beijing’s Communist regime, it is quite another thing to bestow upon that regime the seal of international approval associated with the Olympics. The free nations of the world often trade with countries whose policies they disagree with while simultaneously encouraging those countries to make political reforms...
...Even as the House prepared Thursday to bestow a party-line passage on George W. Bush's $900-odd billion marginal rate reductions, a major pocket of bipartisan opposition to the President's overall tax-cut plan reared its head in the Senate. A centrist clutch of five Republicans and six Democrats banded together Wednesday and demanded a trigger - a legislative clause that would halt tax cuts if the government ran out of surpluses - as the first condition of their support...
...This is the wrong mix for a tax cut that badly needs the kind of unquestioning publicity that only a heavily covered presidential message-tour can bestow. Instead, Bush's appearances have been consigned to quick news clips and local audiences in Little Rock, while on the back pages of the New York Times the academic nitpickers have their way with a budget plan that, for all its broad philosophical appeal, is rather vulnerable to close-reading skeptics...