Word: breather
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...wanted to know, had Ashcroft been so opposed to Satcher, an OB-GYN and pro-choice advocate? Ashcroft, sensing danger, cited "ethical problems" with Satcher's work, refusing to be more specific, mentioning only one of the doctor's controversial medical research projects. Hatch gave Ashcroft a much-needed breather, lobbing a few softballs at his friend until Kennedy stepped in and hammered away at Ashcroft's voting record in Missouri. Kennedy asked the nominee about his refusal to sign busing orders that would have effectively desegregated the St. Louis school district; Ashcroft replied the busing would have cost...
...EXPERIENCE Taking a breather from fiction, Martin Amis writes movingly about life with his famous father Kingsley, who died in 1995. The book hums with the same antic prose and looping comic riffs that characterize Martin's novels, along with a surprising admixture of tenderness...
...Urging kids to take a breather appears to be both welcome and wise, but surely telling kids to plan their time off to this extent could be more than a little counterproductive. After all, could there would be nothing worse than a generation of kids who pad their resumes with "just the right amount" of down time? And, I'd imagine, nothing worse for admission officers than essay after essay about a relaxing and enlightening year off spent conducting mineralogical research in Zimbabwe...
...EXPERIENCE: Taking a breather from fiction, Martin Amis writes movingly about life with his famous father, Kingsley, who died in 1995. The book hums with the same antic prose and looping comic riffs that characterize Martin's novels, along with a surprising admixture of tenderness...
...Chapter 11 just means they're trying to take a breather while they reorganize their assets and liabilities--which can still be affected by the lawsuit," writes Jonathan Zittrain, executive director of Harvard's Berkman Center on Law and Technology, in an e-mail message...