Word: fester
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...Iran-Iraq war - as he was later. It was only recently that we chose to use Saddam as the chief exhibit for the proposition (with which I agree) that the failure and violence of the Muslim world were so dangerous to others that they could not be allowed to fester unchecked...
Fratto was open, Fitzpatrick took his chance. But the window of opportunity was slammed shut, the wounds of a year ago left to fester for another season...
...aide. "Yeah, we're going to play it up. And so long as the Republicans continue to assert that this is going to be handled by Ashcroft, I don't think the scandal will end." In reality, even if a special prosecutor is appointed, the scandal will continue to fester...
Schlosser isn't attacking the pot industry here; he's going after the institutional hypocrisies that force it underground while leaving far more damaging practices, like the abuse of migrant workers, to fester openly. What ties Reefer Madness together is Schlosser's passionate belief that America is deeply neurotic, a nation divided against itself into a sunny, whitewashed mainstream and a lusty, angry, deeply denied subconscious. He just might be the shrink America needs. His next book will take on the prison system, and it will complete what amounts to a three-volume history of the underbelly of late...
MITCHELL: When you have more and more households paying the AMT, it will make people hate the tax system, which politically will build support for tax reform. I will tell you a secret. I am always telling our ideological allies on the Hill, "Don't fix this. Let it fester...