Word: extender
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...What if this year, your mom, who holds Thanksgiving dinner ransom until everyone holds hands and says out loud what he or she is thankful for and then gives you a dirty look when you say, "over the counter painkillers and 300 cable channels," decides to extend the tradition to Independence Day? If you had to stand before your loved ones and tell them one reason you are proud to be an American what would you say? You're on your own on that one. I checked, and there is no "Patriotism for Dummies...
...previously sent young men recruited throughout all over the world for terrorist training in Afghan camps. Now, the organization's inner core of cadres - estimated by experts to number some 3,000 men - have dispersed throughout the Arab and Muslim world. And their priority will be to replenish and extend the network by recruiting and training new operatives, building new terrorist networks among the locals, and folding those and pre-existing local groups into a more diffuse international network. That may be why Washington has taken such great care to warn Americans that its war on terrorism will continue...
...right to try unlawful combatants before a tribunal. But they also ruled that the defendants had a right to appeal their status in federal court. And the decision says nothing about detaining combatants indefinitely or denying them counsel. "To use Quirin to justify indefinite detention of Americans is to extend it far beyond the circumstances in which it was decided," says Silliman...
...life on the other side of the curtain is a better deal than ever before. A spate of luxury offerings in newly revamped business-class cabins is blurring the line with traditional first class. Both British Airways and Singapore Airlines have replaced their loungers with fully adjustable seats that extend into flat beds for long-haul flights. Australia's flagship, Qantas, is launching next year its own convertible seat bed, a follow-up to its highly successful gourmet restaurant in the sky. And Virgin Atlantic Airways boasts an in-flight beauty therapist who dispenses hand, neck and head massages...
...five years that have since passed, Mokhtar's star has soared, his rise accelerating noticeably since the departure of Daim last June after a falling out with the Prime Minister. Associates say Mokhtar's ambitions extend to nothing less than turning his adopted hometown of Johor Bahru into a second Singapore by spending millions of dollars upgrading the roads and water supply, developing every inch of the 2,000 acres on which the port sits?the goal is to double or treble current capacity?and transforming the town's airport into a major air-cargo hub. Mahathir...