Word: containable
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Seton further writes that the final version of the bill contains language condemning the military's so-called "don't ask, don't tell" policy of excluding homosexuals from serving openly in the military. In fact, the council rejected a strongly worded amendment that would have explicitly condemned the policy. Instead, the final bill merely states that the council does not endorse the military's exclusionary policy. It does not contain a condemnation...
Seton further writes that the final version of the bill contains language condemning the military's so-called "don't ask, don't tell" policy of excluding homosexuals from serving openly in the military. In fact, the council rejected a strongly worded amendment which would have explicitly condemned the policy. Instead, the final bill merely states that the council does not endorse the military's exclusionary policy. It does not contain a condemnation...
...lives. Ending the book with "In This Way We Are Wise," a story treating a different subject matter and using a different style from that employed in the rest of the collection, Englander brings his readers into the violence of the present moment. While most of the stories contain middle-aged characters dealing with mid-life types of problems, this story follows Natan/Nathan, a young American living in Jerusalem who Narrowly avoids a nearby suicide bombing. The story, divided into numerous short segments, is told in choppy, metaphorical phrases: "Like wild birds frightened. Like people possessed, tearing at their forms...
...failed presidential bid: a slow start. "She hasn't put anything in place quickly," says Dickerson. "She's only announcing her New Hampshire team this coming week." Another big money drawer was former vice president Dan Quayle with $2.1 million. His good showing indicates the GOP contest will contain plenty of thunder from the right...
...believe concerns over water safety were really ever the reason people bought bottled water. Bottled water, along with cigars, cell phones and stock options, is a quintessential yuppie accesory. The always-questionable health benefits of bottled water (Perrier, the trendy water of the '80s, was found to contain carcinogenic benzene in 1990) might have been how you justified buying bottled water, but the sad fact is you simply couldn't be seen at the health club with tap. You had to have the right "designer water," as Gary Trudeau called...