Word: co-opt
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...Senator. While the cornerstone of the law mandates statewide standardized exams in Grades 3 through 8, Nebraska wants to stick with its own system, which formally tests students in only two of these years with exams designed in large part by local teachers. "Over my dead body will we co-opt our system," the state's education commissioner Doug Christensen said last summer. Since then he and the Governor have tussled with Administration officials in private and in print over the issue...
...only a couple of seconds long - but a produced propaganda tape. Intercut with Pearl?s statement are war scenes from the Palestinian territories: an injured baby, Israeli soldiers. Using Muslim grievances to justify slaughtering a Jewish civilian should be insulting to all those whom the terrorists want to co-opt. But it evidently is not, given the terrorists? continuing ability to win recruits. We may already know that intellectually. But the video makes this noxious logic searingly real. I sweated through every moment of watching the damned thing. I paused it every few seconds and paced, checked my e-mail...
...more militant than those around Arafat, fiercely critical of the corruption and authoritarianism that became the hallmark of his administration, and impatient with Arafat's strategy of negotiations which they see as doing little to end the occupation. Arafat's reaction to their challenge, however, was to attempt to co-opt them, by providing funding and political support. And it was the Tanzim that "represented" Arafat in the violent confrontations with the Israelis that began in October 2000, helping Fatah reclaim the leadership of the streets from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, although they were happy to coordinate their actions against...
...than the Mother of All Battles Mosque finished last year but not as grand as No. 3, expected to be completed in 2010, which Saddam claims will be the biggest in the Arab world. The fiercely secular leader has lately switched his building mania from palaces to mosques to co-opt the country's growing religious mood...
...Internet, media tycoons from the old line venues looked to the Internet with fear. Ubiquitous and cheap, the new medium threatened their businesses with extinction or, worse, irrelevance. They did what any responsible business owner would do when faced with such a situation: they attempted, quite successfully, to co-opt the revolution by launching their own Internet news and analysis sites. By 2001, CBS Marketwatch, CNN.com and Dow Jones OpinionJournal.com had proven far more influential and popular than their upstart new economy challengers TheStreet.com, Slate.com and Salon.com. The revolution, it appeared, was over...