Word: drift
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...Japanese customers asked him to sign them on the inside.) "'It' bags mean nothing," said Maier of styles like Fendi's $1,430 B bag. "Women are the ones who decide if a bag is good or not. They know exactly what they want. So the more I can drift away from what's fashion and trend, the better it is for the brand...
More than four months after the election, a shift in the position of incumbent prime minister may finally open the way for the creation of a new Iraqi government. But expectations that the formation of such a government will do much to reverse the country's sectarian drift are diminishing...
...teenagers are buzzing over trays in the cafeteria. Like high schoolers everywhere, they have arranged themselves by type: jocks, preps, cheerleaders, dorks, punks and gamers, all with tables of their own. But when they are finished chugging the milk and throwing Tater Tots at one another, they will drift out to their classes and slouch together through lessons on Edgar Allan Poe and Pythagoras. It's the promise of American public education: no matter who you are or where you come from, you will be tugged gently along the path of learning, toward graduation and an open but hopeful future...
...Resistance from non-Muslims and civil liberties groups has forced legislators to start revising the bill, a process they plan to complete by June. But pressure from influential Muslim organizations to impose harsh sanctions remains strong. "We have to stop this drift toward moral liberalization," says Din Syamsuddin, chairman of Muhammadiyah, the country's second largest Muslim organization. Leaders such as Syamsuddin deny any intention of imposing Shari'a or that non-Muslims are being targeted. They also reject the claim that rights will be curtailed, saying that the objective of the law is to protect women and children...
...going to leave here with a government tomorrow," Rice said, stating the obvious. "That's not the purpose of the trip. But I think... probably it was good for all of them to hear it from each of us, from both of us, that people have a sense of drift...