Word: dispatching
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...truth is, occasionally, I'm not very smart," Gingrich told Dateline NBC. "I probably need to be 30 percent less pugnacious and 50 less negative." Meanwhile, the first comment's indirect target, former Senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, responded in a column in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I fully welcome the scorn of Gingrich. I have nothing but disdain toward this unscrupulous demagogue . . . In any event, the 'McGoverniks' whom Gingrich fears did not get to the White House in 1972."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...setback to several positive developments in recent weeks on the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang has rejected Seoul's offer of investment and direct trade. "Cooperation and confrontation are incompatible," Pyongyang's Central News Agency said in a dispatch. The report was the North's first response to the South Korean initiative for economic cooperation announced Monday after a 50-year hands-off policy. So, while the possibility of direct trade between the two countries appears to be flagging, indirect trade through third parties -- which North Korea hasn't blocked -- is flourishing. In the first eight months of this year, it soared...
Still, not all students approved of the dispatch of troops to the Persian Gulf...
...dispatch from the beseiged capital as the first snows fall...
...Summers has reason to throw up his hands again. The latest dispatch from the front lines of America's losing fight against fat -- one sure to fluster consumers as they frantically scan the nutritional labels on supermarket shelves -- comes from the Boston University Medical Center. Not only do some fats appear to be less harmful than others, say Dr. Edward Siguel and his colleague Dr. Robert Lerman, but diets deficient in "good" fats may actually be dangerous to human health. Backing up this startling assertion is a study Siguel and Lerman published in the journal Metabolism. In 47 patients with...