Word: concessioners
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Beijing is skittish enough these days to consider any concession to the West as a step onto a slippery slope. For his part, Bush is fighting efforts in Congress to eliminate China's most favored nation trading status because of its human rights abuses. To fend it off, he needs...
-- THE PALESTINIANS were big winners. Instead of the unshaven face of Yasser Arafat, they presented an image of intelligence, professionalism and sensitivity. They sounded the most conciliatory notes and made the first substantive concession, explicitly saying they will now accept the limited self-rule they spurned when it was offered...
In the third case, I appreciate the writer's concession that prayer on such occasions might be valid, although I confess to confusion as to what a non-sectarian prayer is. Is that a prayer that could not possibly give offense because it says nothing that anyone could believe or...
Surely at least a minimal concession to the efficacy of prayer on such occasions must be that at least the person who prays it ought to be able to believe it. To allow for that is a small step toward that tolerance for which the writer presumably pleads and for...
In an attempt to soup up that life-style, the new facilities cater to the concerns of two-earner families, staying open in the evenings, long after traditional public playgrounds have grown dark and unusable. At Naperville's Leaps & Bounds, families can play together for $4.95 per child, parents free...