Word: feds
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...several other groups are fed up with the lack of governmental attention to the issues concerning them, Yard says. As proof that the current two-party system is "leaving too many citizens out," members of these special interest groups point to the consistently low voter turnout in this country--most often these non-voters are the nation's underprivelged...
...competent is the key word for Cruzan, 32, who survives only by being fed through an abdominal tube and who is not able to think or speak about her fate. Her parents argued that she had told a friend not long before the crash that she would not want to live unless "she could live at least halfway normally," but the lower court ruled that this evidence was "unreliable" and "insufficient...
Islam Dara is a small mujahedin supply base nestled in jagged rocks beneath a circle of mountains, a desert oasis fed by a cold thin stream. Except for the sound of aerial bombing that burns red rings of brush fire above the enclave, Islam Dara seems sheltered. A few canvas tents are pitched amid boulders and mounds of ammunition: RPG-7s, launchers, bazookas. With its cool caves and grassy marshes harboring frogs, Islam Dara is a boy's paradise out of Kipling. But the dozen or so boys who stay there are living an idyll...
...always, Mama saw to it that everyone was fed, made sure that Father wore a clean white shirt, put everything in its proper place -- all with a warm, ; ready smile on her round face. She acted as if no catastrophe had occurred: the Central Committee had simply made another decision, in this case involving the dismissal of her husband, and she accepted it as she had accepted so many others. After all, she wasn't just his wife but a party member, and democratic centralism's dictates about subordination from top to bottom had become second nature to her. Once...
...Arendt describes in an essay on political deceit. Contrary to what some might expect, persons subjected to a stream of media manipulation, instead of believing what ever new they are told, grow less impressionable, more cynical, more inclined to disbelieve everything even as more versions of the truth are fed them...