Word: deem
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...woman have sex with the same gay man, for example, the woman may donate blood again after 12 months while both men are barred permanently. More puzzling still, heterosexual sex with an HIV-positive partner only precludes donation for a year; even the most bizarre risk calculus would deem this more dangerous than sex between HIV-negative...
Despite the fact that intelligence reports deem it unlikely that al-Qaeda will launch its next attack using the methods employed on Sept. 11, Coulter remains adamant that racial profiling marks the major battleground over national security between Republicans and their Democratic-terrorist rivals. The prospect of war against Iraq is apparently another self-evident matter—except for those notorious traitors in the Hezbollah-loving, America-hating Democratic party...
...Koizumi's opponents are worried about a host of factors, including what they deem a "Takenaka Recession." Under the finance chief's plan, the easy pipeline of money from complacent banks to profitless companies would be cut off, giving these companies no choice but to shut down and throw their workers out on the street. "Companies are going to go under and Japan offers no support for the unemployed," frets Minoru Morita, a prominent political analyst. Already, LDP politicians and Tokyo bankers are circulating a list of 51 companies presumed likely to meet with peril under the plan?including retailer...
Mere days from the primary election, two of Cambridge’s biggest political stars went head-to-head last night in a rancorous yet inconclusive debate at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum—a microcosm of a state Senate election that observers deem too close to call...
...governments being urged to use tax incentives and subsidies to woo their consumers off of fossil fuels. Elsewhere, however, it was the EU in the environmentalists' doghouse for nixing any discussion of the $300 billion that rich nations pay their own farmers in subsidies, which the poorer countries deem unfair protectionism that prices their exports out of the market and stymies development. And a number of African leaders bristled at their own failure to stop the Europeans attaching a democracy-and-good-governance clause to calls for greater aid to the developing world...