Word: cloud
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...elected officer likes to begin her term under a cloud of controversy, and it must be frustrating for both Driskell and Burton to have won this election and be immediately faced with questions about how they ran their campaign...
...lesbian couples must be granted the same benefits and protections enjoyed by their heterosexual counterparts. But the ruling is something of a mixed bag for gay-rights advocates. While the state has already approved legal protections to gays' and lesbians' housing, employment and civil rights, TIME writer John Cloud says, "this ruling is more of a defeat than a victory." The court, rather than make what Cloud calls "a truly groundbreaking ruling," stopped short of deciding whether same-sex couples' rights would be established through a formal marriage or a statewide system of domestic partnerships, leaving that decision...
...West would do well to mend its relations with Russia, not only because Dartboard does not want to enter the next century with a nuclear cloud hanging over our heads. It would truly be a tragedy if America won the first Cold War only to enter another a decade later. The second time, the West might...
...References: The Codes of Culture making fun of the title would be shooting fish in a barrel we come to the hardly surprising realization that There is no generic reader, out there; in Our Century, Gordimer is a long distance from shocking us with the information that The mushroom cloud still hangs over us, and the unbearably trite corollary question: will it be there as a bequest to the new century...
...international affairs," says Dowell. "And a lot of people on Capitol Hill still imagine China in terms of a 'Red Threat' or a 'Yellow Peril.' That could create difficulties when this deal gets to Congress." If the agreement becomes the focus of a domestic political fight, that could further cloud U.S.-China relations - after all, despite the compensation deal, Beijing hasn't yet accepted that the embassy bombing was an accident...