Word: bring
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...shelter gay-straight alliances at more than 20 schools nationally. Ironically, the fund's primary weapon is the federal Equal Access Act, a 1984 law designed to safeguard religious groups. The act says schools must treat clubs equally, regardless of beliefs. Lambda has found no student willing to bring a suit challenging Utah's statewide ban. Nevertheless, the East High group still meets each Thursday, skirting the ban by paying a fee to rent a classroom...
...public theater on both sides last week, the terms of the confrontation did not change. If Saddam was still in his box, Clinton was still in his quandary. Saddam wins if he manages to keep the inspectors out of his "sovereign sites." The U.S. loses if it cannot bring the anti-Iraq coalition back together, at least inside the Security Council. Without it, any "last option" military action by the U.S. appears remote...
...reason for disagreement is based almost entirely, and naturally enough, on self-interest. The European Union, for example, wants to see industrial nations--its own members included--bring emissions of CO2 and other heat-trapping gases down to 85% of what they were in 1990, and do it within the next 12 years...
...second fantasy, Where the Sea Used to Be, sketches a young man, a rough-and-tumble oil geologist and aviator, who is obsessed with oil--not the money it can bring but the ancient, hidden stuff itself. He can sometimes see, almost clearly, the shape and shadows of a deep-buried oil deposit that once was an inland sea. He meets a beautiful young woman, takes her, literally, in his airplane while scouting for oil, and sorrows that he doesn't have the knack of falling in love with her. The journey of the tale is his effort to teach...
...title story, less obviously a fantasy and more difficult to bring off for lack of stage effects, traces the years of watching and listening that tie a woman to a large, rundown ranch in Texas. The point of the long, brooding account is simply for narrator and reader to understand these profound ties, the connectedness of memory, time's flow, seed's uncurling, and "the spider's silk lines of chance." Writing of this quality creates a stillness in the mind...