Word: echoing
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...course, Cohen is right to point out that many other institutions of higher learning across the country need donations in order to provide their students with the basic components of a stimulating education. And we echo his call for donors to consider the potential impacts of their gifts before they actually make a donation: All too often, it seems, individuals with the best intentions give to certain causes or institutions only to realize that their donations could have made more of a difference elsewhere...
...Sergio Romano, a Corriere columnist and former Italian ambassador to NATO, says Frattini's concerns echo those expressed in the halls of power across continental Europe. "He's saying what almost all European leaders are saying, either privately or publicly," Romano tells TIME. "There is a rather widespread idea that [the mission in Afghanistan] is not leading anywhere...
...Dogs, the fiscally conservative House Dems, said this week that he would not vote for any bill that includes a public plan. If there was one major casualty of the talk of death panels, Nazi comparisons and screaming matches at all those town-hall meetings - which reverberated through the echo chamber of cable-TV news - it was the public plan. Democrats had hoped to include a government-run insurance program in the bill as a way to provide enough competition with private plans to keep costs down, but opponents derided it as the first step toward socialized medicine. House Speaker...
...period, as has been noted and honored with such frequency as to become perfunctory and cliché, saw the integration of baseball and with it, the opening of the door to greater integration in society. The deaths of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, Jr. had their baseball echo in Roberto Clemente’s death in 1972, which served as an explosive punctuation mark at the close of the “60s” and ushered in the era of what-do-we-do-now malaise, stagflation, oil shocks and Nixon’s demise. Finally...
...most likely explanation is that the Israelis intercepted this cargo, which had been meant for Syria or Iran," says Yulya Latynina, a prominent political commentator and radio host on Echo of Moscow, a station owned by state-controlled gas giant Gazprom. "They will now use the incident as a bargaining chip with Russia over weapons sales in the region, while allowing Russia to save face by taking its empty ship back home." When contacted by TIME, both the Israeli Prime Minister's office and Mossad, Israel's secret service, declined to comment. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...