Word: fabricate
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...hand usually call for protectionism. Those who expect to benefit tend to insist that the free market instead be given free rein. Neither option works very well. In the U.S. as well as in Europe and other developed economies, every job moved offshore leaves a tiny hole in the fabric of middle-class life. There are gains to the world economy, but those are not so immediate as the pain of a lost job. For those who have been laid off or are worried they will be, it is tempting to fight to stop-or at least delay-the changes...
...with gunners. Only a few small explosions could be heard in the distance; there was no small-arms fire. We stopped at a bombed-out medical clinic for a briefing, with operation maps leaned against a white ceramic tile wall, Odierno and his commanders sitting on boxes and camouflage-fabric campaign chairs in a tight semicircle. The news was good. The enemy was said to be caught in a tightening cordon. Local Sunni insurgents - they claimed to be members of the 1920 Revolution Brigades - had helped to clear the Buhritz neighborhood. After the briefing, Lieut. Colonel Bruce Antonia told...
...cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines, and because Mexico has yet to really confront one of the main causes of the country's narco-chaos: underpaid and under-trained cops who are easily bought by the cartels and, in many states and cities, have simply become part of the cartel fabric (and as a result are often the victims of cartel assassinations). Calderon's military campaign may have boosted him in the polls, but soldiers are hardly a reliable long-term solution against drug trafficking. "We have to focus on police institution-building," concedes the Mexican official. Mexico's Secretary of Public...
...Guha does not gloss over India's numerous failures. He describes how New Delhi's bungling has combined with Islamic fundamentalism to nullify most attempts to weave the valley of Kashmir into the fabric of India. He doesn't shy away from the still-lopsided economy (at least one-quarter of the population is extremely poor, and many social services are in an appalling state). Most disturbingly, he warns that there has been a rotting away of the institutions that allowed democracy to thrive in the decades after 1947-political dynasties now dominate most Indian states, corruption has grown...
...called a friend of mine, who's a mad NASCAR fan, to mull the passing of Bill France Jr. Just what was the man's contribution to the national fabric? My friend responded, "Vroooom...