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While families are finite, friends are a renewable resource, which is fortunate given the odds against sustaining a friendship. The career-building years can entail repeated moves that result in separations from friends. In midlife, the competing claims of work and child rearing can force friendship onto the back burner. Then there's divorce, which divides spouses not only from each other but often from the friends they once held in common. When we retire, the migration to the Sunbelt takes a toll both on those who leave and those who remain behind. Finally, as we age, our social networks...
They got put on the "back burner," says Nancy DiLando, D'Alessandro's executive assistant, who has been in charge of managing the to-do list...
...leader Ariel Sharon or even more shootings of Palestinian civilians by anti-peace Israeli settlers in the West Bank could restart the cycle of violence from the other side. So, despite the cease-fire, a "final status" peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians may have moved from the back burner into the deep freeze. Rather than a comprehensive peace, the best the two sides may be able to hope for in the coming months, if not years, is effective crisis management...
...chances of resolving the potential for violence in the current pattern of troop and settlement distribution are considerably diminished now that the peace process itself is on the back burner. Three weeks of rage not only showed how deeply Palestinians distrust the peace process, they also bled the Israeli peace camp of much of its faith in the process. Just as the center of gravity in Palestinian politics has shifted toward the militancy of the Islamists and Fatah grass roots, so has the momentum in Israeli politics swung dramatically against Prime Minister Barak's peace policy. Barak is already seeking...
...election, suddenly, is back on the back burner. Anyone else want to boycott the Olympics...