Word: coverts
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...camera harangue against Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace, for an aggressive line of questioning about his administration's anti-terror efforts, the New York Times reported that prominent Democrats, from Howard Dean to Paul Begala, had begun an open campaign of attacking Fox as a covert Republican shill...
...Capt. William Evans called student behavior there “a disgrace.” But the BPD doesn’t seem to realize that this kind of alcohol policy does not stop students from breaking the law; it just causes more students to endanger themselves through reckless, covert drinking...
...great project,” says this covert construction worker, “until, in the middle of the night, it falls...
...hormone replacement therapy, samples of estrogen skin patches gave great relief of all sorts of joint pains suffered by certain peri-menopausal patients. Exercise, strangely enough, seems to have taken the place of the hormones we used to give - with nearly the same pain relief. This might be a covert form of hormonal therapy itself; the "pleasure hormones" or endorphins that are released in the brain by exercise (and eating and sex too) are potent natural pain killers...
...same could not be said of a war against diffuse terrorist networks. It became fashionable in the years after 9/11 to speak of "Islamo-fascism." In reality, the enemy was more like communism in its heyday: international in its scope, revolutionary in its ambitions and adept at recruiting covert operatives in the West. The right tactic to defeat it was not conventional warfare but tedious intelligence work--monitoring telephone calls, tracking financial transactions, shadowing suspects, infiltrating cells...