Word: blowingly
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...discontent cannot be fixed by mere changes in attitude and tone. The presence of systemic flaws in the channels of communication between the administration and the Faculty demands an institutional rethink. The first logical step should be centered on the creation of conduits for professors to voice concerns and blow off steam. What the Faculty needs is a reliable safety valve...
...will forbid this type of coercive restriction on press freedom, but if it does not we beseech the Justice Department not to exercise its full powers. If every undercover agent of the CIA was slain by our nation’s enemies, it would not be so grievous a blow to America as the precedent that is being set in this case. Intelligence, America can do without. We wish the CIA luck, but even where it fails disastrously America will pull through. When the press is muzzled, America’s inner machinery will fail...
...intelligence agencies that John is not going to rock the boat," says Leslie Gelb, a former Defense and State Department official and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. "He's not going to try to pound the table and create a revolution. The agencies would blow up anybody who would try. He'll get them in the room, get them talking to each other, and if Bush wants a particular thing done, he will get it done." Negroponte's patrician manner belies what friends and enemies alike say is a hard-headed resolve...
...Call it the Jane Fonda school of economics: no pain, no gain. As in any good workout, the stretching of the euro has forced flabby European companies to become fitter. Since the rising euro means euro-zone goods sold abroad cost more, competitiveness has taken a blow, but not a brutal one. In Germany, for example, overall competitiveness has declined by only about 6% - far less than the dollar's depreciation - according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. How come? For one thing, Germany and the other 11 euro-zone nations now have a much bigger...
...mini-flap over Summers’ remarks on Jews and Catholics is almost sure to blow over. But the transcript released yesterday may undermine Summers’ assertion that his speech was a “purely academic exploration of hypotheses...