Word: dwelled
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...particular disadvantage,” Chao said. President Bush appointed Chao labor secretary in 2001, making her the first Asian-American woman to serve in a President’s cabinet. In a brief question-and-answer session, Chao said repeatedly that students should be confident and not dwell on discrimination. “So many young people seem to think that the world is stacked against them,” Cho said. “I think that’s so negative.” She added that Asian Americans often benefit from strong family support...
Marooned without recourse to prudence and common sense, ideologues dwell in an airy-fairy netherworld where logic, reason, and humanity do not apply...
...proves to be a masterful narrator and paces the story at just the right speed. He is also a lucky man: the material and subject matter naturally invites the curiosity of the reader and allows him to overlook Zimbardo’s occasionally poorly worded phrase or tendency to dwell on a tangentially related subject.In the end, these defects feel less like defects and more like the idiosyncratic quirks of a charming explorer who desperately wants us to understand a new and terrifying world that he’s discovered. —Reviewer Eric W. Lin can be reached...
...pragmatic generation of Hizballah officials who gained prominence at the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1990. And he crossed swords with the Lebanese government in 1997 when he launched a campaign of civil disobedience to protest official neglect of the impoverished Bekaa. Toufeili insists he does not dwell on the past, and spends most of his time studying weighty tracts on Islamic jurisprudence. Yet one cannot help wondering what dark secrets swirl in his memory when he gazes out of his window at the imposing walls of the Sheikh Abdullah barracks down the road...
...Ghazaliya, a violent neighborhood in western Baghdad with similar combat outposts, nearby gunfire cracks through the inky blackness outside seemingly every time you drift off. And in Diyala Province, where nine U.S. soldiers died Monday, troops stand watch on rooftops overlooking stretches of palm groves where they know insurgents dwell, waiting for the right moment to strike...