Word: establishmentism
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Poisonings:This one has a flicker of hope about it, since poison-control centers around the world field millions of calls per day and resolve most poisonings over the phone. Still, a lot of lives are lost - 45,000 per year, or 123 per day. Medicines both prescription and over...
Burns:The toll here is 96,000 children under 20 each year - or 263 per day. Infants are at the greatest risk, and kids between 10 and 14 are at the lowest. The rate rises again for kids 15 to 19, perhaps because of greater access to fireworks, gasoline and...
Some people believe they are loved for what they are; others think they are accepted for what they do. Nixon, the classic grind, was in the second category, and that's part of the continuing fascination with him. His National Security Advisor, then Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, said of...
Nixon, Richard M. •antipathy of - "I'll never let those sons-of-bitches in the White House again. Never, never, never" - toward Ivy League school presidents is voiced by •desire of to have Brookings Institution "cleaned out in a way that has somebody else take the blame" is...
While it's unlikely that the military or ISI leadership would have been aware of, let alone sanctioned, the attack in Mumbai, India will see the Pakistani intelligence service as key to resolving a problem it had a strong hand in creating. Nor is the ISI's current orientation entirely...