Word: burnering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...
...issue that is now on the front burner dates back to 1992, when the FDA decided that biotech ingredients did not materially alter food and therefore did not require labeling. Nor, the agency declared, was premarket safety testing required, because biotech additives were presumed to be benign. Last March the Center for Food Safety and 53 other groups, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, filed a petition to force the FDA to change its policy...