Word: brethrens
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...directing the spotlight at the microconfusion inside the camp of her party's front runner for President, Texas Governor George W. Bush. His staff started the week quashing rumors that Bush, fearful of being labeled the presidential candidate of the pro-gun party, had urged his brethren in Congress to embrace gun control. Bush had talked to Senator Larry Craig of Idaho, the N.R.A.'s main defender in the Senate, but it was only to deny the claim made by the Democrats that Bush favored their party's amendment supporting mandatory background checks at gun shows. It was true, Bush...
...says. "But judging solely on results is a serious deterrent to taking the risks that may be necessary to making the right decision." And the smooth-talking Rubin was one of the few men who could pick up a phone, as he did in late 1997, and persuade his brethren at banks and trading firms up and down Wall Street to keep their money invested in South Korea, an economy that at the time was melting down faster than a scoop of ice cream on a hot asphalt road...
...NATO leaders is that they talk too much. Their strategies are thus exposed to the enemy. Material advantage is not a guarantee of success. The Yugoslavs and Russians are excellent chess players. While Russia is not directly involved in the war, Russian advisers may be giving their Yugoslav brethren practical pointers in order to win endgames. NESTOR ALMAZAN Mississauga...
...refugees: "Will the alliance be able to deliver on its promise to get all of them back home?" asks Calabresi. Because of its ethnic fragility, Macedonia is in no position to permanently absorb the refugees on its soil. And Albania, while happy to receive its ethnic brethren, is economically unable to care for them in the long term. How and where the refugees ultimately wind up will in large measure determine how long the guns can stay silent once the last shot of the NATO operation is heard...
...Wright brothers had been fascinated by the idea of flight from an early age. In 1878 their father, a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, gave them a flying toy made of cork and bamboo. It had a paper body and was powered by rubber bands. The young boys soon broke the fragile toy, but the memory of its faltering flight across their living room stayed with them. By the mid-1890s Wilbur was reading every book and paper he could find on the still earthbound science of human flight. And four years before they made...