Word: dove
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Such a genial host has the quiet effect of curbing pointed questions. Who wants to bring up politics, religion or money at a family dinner or when there are Dove Bars on demand? One day in Pittsburgh, after Bush and his press pack filled the plane with talk of jogging routes, pickup trucks and heifers, it was the reporters on the ground who pressed Bush to clarify his mushy position on abortion and whether he could prove, given the absence of official documents, that he had actually put in all his time in the National Guard. The charm vanished...
...Such a genial host has the quiet effect of curbing pointed questions. Who wants to bring up politics, religion or money at a family dinner or when there are Dove Bars on demand? One day in Pittsburgh, after Bush and his press pack filled the plane with talk of jogging routes, pickup trucks and heifers, it was the reporters on the ground who pressed Bush to clarify his mushy position on abortion and whether he could prove, given the absence of official documents, that he had actually put in all his time in the National Guard. The charm vanished...
...those arguments speak to the dove in Clinton, the report also warns that despite North Korea's suspension of its missile program and efforts at diplomatic rapprochement, it remains capable of deploying a missile that could threaten the U.S. a lot sooner than 2015, which is when the spy agencies agree the U.S. potentially becomes vulnerable to missile threats from states such as Iran and Iraq. And in a second, unclassified report released to Congress Wednesday, the CIA reports that Russian firms are helping Iran develop its missile capability, while China continues to provide such assistance to Pakistan. In other...
...British and French industry officials, who built the Concorde together in the '60s as a kind of supersonic dove, decide that feeling is gone forever with Tuesday's catastrophe, then it's not hard to imagine that they will seriously consider retiring this distinctive, one-of-a-kind aircraft...
...fall rather than pay up. But as last-minute negotiations continue to avert a walkout of the second largest party in his coalition - which would ostensibly force him into a minority government, an alliance with the hawkish Likud party or a new election - Barak is playing the beleaguered dove. His finance minister, Avraham Shohat, insisted Tuesday that the issues Shas is raising have been resolved. "They did not resign over that, but for political motives of another kind: differences over the peace process." Israeli political analysts don't buy that, but the spin may be intended for Madeleine Albright ahead...