Word: chokes
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...Bush hard-liners had long believed that stability could come to the Middle Eastand Israel--only if Saddam Hussein was overthrown and Iraq converted into a stable democracy. Led by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, they were installed at various national-security choke points in the government, and nothing moved without their O.K. Bamford comes very close to stating that the hard-liners were wittingly or unwittingly acting as agents of Israel's hard-line Likud Party, which believed Israel should operate with impunity in the region and dictate terms to its neighbors. Such a world view, Bamford argues...
...those speeches without breaking up?' He said, 'Here's what you do. You write it out yourself, and then you say it over and over again. And by doing that, it is still personal the way you say it, but you don't feel that you are apt to choke...
...Drugmakers are exploring new technologies such as digital watermarks and computerized ID chips to thwart counterfeiting. But health officials say consumers need to be aware of the problem and protect themselves by carefully scrutinizing the drugs they buy. Meanwhile, attempts to choke supplies off at the source are increasing, at least in mainland China. In Shenzhen, a booming manufacturing city located just across the border from Hong Kong, the Municipal Drug Administration investigated 1,956 cases and shut down 38 underground producers and sellers between January and September of 2003. That's up from the 226 cases and 9 wholesalers...
...Blows. Director-writer Alejandro Agresti flat out denies the implicit--and, yes, existential--terrors of this child's desperately improvised life. Agresti's just out to give us a sentimental good time. Which some people, heaven help us, will have--while the rest of us choke on the cutesiness...
...convincingly shows, that is the situation we face today vis-à-vis Mexican immigration. He quotes former National Intelligence Council Vice Chairman Graham Fuller, who says of the Mexican-dominated regions of the American Southwest, “We may be building toward the one thing that will choke the melting pot, an ethnic area and grouping so concentrated that it will not wish, or need, to undergo assimilation into the mainstream of American multi-ethnic English-speaking life...