Word: cedes
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...always put in a kind of showdown in the 200, and I'd gotten tired of that. I'm a lot more relaxed going to Sydney the way it is." Heading into Atlanta, Johnson demanded attention--"I want all eyes on me." This year he's content to cede the eyeballs to Marion Jones, while he "tries to have some fun" with his family--wife Kerry and three-month-old son Sebastian...
...matter if you don't overhaul the culture." That can be hard, says Anita Tesh, associate professor of nursing at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. "Once people see the atmosphere changes, they want to sign on. But it can be frightening to administrators to cede power...
...Portugal Thursday, hoping to jump-start the stalled Israeli-Palestinian track of the Middle East peace process. Both sides had previously committed themselves to concluding a final agreement by September, but that looks increasingly difficult as major differences remain unresolved: over how much of the West Bank Israel will cede to an eventual Palestinian state; over the status of East Jerusalem; over the future of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees that Israel has precluded from returning to their original homes inside the Jewish state. In addition, Arafat's room for compromise has been narrowed by his constituency...
...doesn't want to create a momentum he can't easily stop." Meanwhile Arafat's chief negotiator, Yasser Abdel Rabbo, resigned Monday over the Palestinian leader's handling of the talks, while Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak faced a mutiny from key coalition partners over his plan to cede three West Bank villages on the outskirts of Jerusalem to Palestinian control...
...through my tears I realized that I'd be a fool to cede my identity on the world's most powerful medium. So I called The Singing Joel Stein to tell him "this means war/so don't let your kitten out the door." Despite my intimidation tactics, he said he wasn't willing to give up the domain name. "You could probably get joelstein.net, he offered, like some sleazy real estate agent trying to sell me a beach house 10 blocks from the ocean. This was shaping up as the greatest fight for personal identity since Senator Paul Simon showed...