Word: drift
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Controlled fury will be the key to Belmont, at a mile and a half the longest of the Triple Crown races by an eighth of a mile. Once again the speed horses such as Sunday Break and Perfect Drift will be gunning for War Emblem, hoping to grind him down. Bring it on, says Baffert. "Nothing that goes with him up front will be around...
...would worry about too much power being concentrated in one person and one office, especially when there’s been some drift from the president appointing,” Shinagel says...
...Some students will accommodate themselves to the nature of things; others will drift away because they become disillusioned,” he says. “If they want to remain involved, in the end they’re going to have to subordinate their views to workers...
...Absent some form of shock therapy, the administration's efforts to start a regional political dialogue at a summit that was to have been held in June - but has now been postponed - may simply drift into oblivion. The Israelis insist they won't talk to Arafat, and it remains abundantly clear that no Palestinian will step forward to negotiate with Israel. Much now depends on what transpires over the next week when Bush meets first with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, and then with Sharon. Bush is unlikely to hear much that will please him. The question is, what will...
...commitment?on paper, four years of military service. Earlier this year, the British trained the 1st Battalion of the Afghan National Guard in a six-week crash course. In April, 550 new guardsmen graduated and took their posts. Since then, the number has dropped below 400 as disillusioned soldiers drift away to find other work or return to their home provinces. But as the Americans see it, in these parts that's par for the course. "The reality of doing this in Afghanistan is that it's not going to be perfect, only workable," says McDonnell...