Word: discarder
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Scaling Everest requires the enthusiasm and boosterism of a physical-education teacher combined with the survival instinct of a Green Beret. You have to want that summit. And if you whine and bitch along the way, your teammates might discard you before you get there. Erik, beneath his beard and quiet demeanor, was both booster and killer. "He was the heart and soul of our team," says Eric Alexander. "The guy's spirit won't let you quit...
George W. Bush is learning the downside of compromise: Sometimes a happy medium means no one is happy at all. Such was the case Friday, when the White House announced it would neither discard nor strictly enforce a Clinton administration rule limiting new roads and development in national forests. With that, Bush managed to simultaneously sideswipe already fuming environmentalists and let the timber industry know that he may not be quite the ally they had initially hoped. In short, the White House has managed to satisfy no one and frustrate just about everybody...
...curiously flattened too. There was no evidence of the wildfire energy of the college student, no evidence of much moral passion. More troublingly, there was no sign at all of the sweet and fleeting belief that they could try things and fail at them and try other things and discard them until they found something that truly touched and transformed them--and that they could do for the rest of their lives...
...curiously flattened too. There was no evidence of the wildfire energy of the college student, no evidence of much moral passion. More troublingly, there was no sign at all of the sweet and fleeting belief that they could try things and fail at them and try other things and discard them until they found something that truly touched and transformed them - and that they could do for the rest of their lives...
...nine months later, no budgets have been busted or prosecutors ousted. Only the rare case merits review. Pfingst's team considers convictions before 1993, when the city started routine DNA testing. They discard cases if the defendant has been released. Of the 560 remaining files, they have re-examined 200, looking for cases with biological evidence and defendants who still claim innocence...