Word: draggers
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...Outside official circles in China that sentiment is stated more bluntly. "The U.S. is definitely a dragger. It's not a pusher. It's not a puller," says Chen Xingdong, a Beijing-based China economist for BNP Paribas Securities. "The U.S. is not doing the right thing. It's not acting...
...National Party leaders who helped erect the artifice of apartheid, has traveled further from his heritage than anyone could have predicted. He has dismantled the past and prepared his nation for democracy. And what does he hear from Mandela, the A.N.C. and others? That he is a foot dragger, unconcerned with the injustices and violence suffered by blacks in his land, even, perhaps, secretly instigating such turmoil; that he is not an architect of progress but at times its impediment. ''If I start defending myself on that,'' De Klerk says, hunching forward in his chair and clenching his teeth...