Word: fight
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...right with the way she was talking. We’d lived just the two of us since Dad left five years ago, and the way she was talking reminded me of that day five years ago. When I was sleeping, Dad and Mom got in the biggest fight they ever had. They never had loud fights. Tc The next morning, Dad was gone, and I could tell that he wasn’t coming back by the way Mom talked. “Did you take a snack...
...Earlier during the week, Secretary of State Clinton bluntly declared that the insatiable U.S. demand for illegal drugs is the overwhelming reason why cartels fight each other. Although more Mexicans are becoming addicted themselves, the vast majority of drugs flowing through Mexico right now will be snorted, puffed, or injected by Americans, Canadians, and even Europeans...
...popular American mindset to not think about internationally interconnected problems thoroughly. Legalization in the U.S., Canada, or more European countries will exacerbate the violence if the same drugs are not legalized in Mexico. Demand would boom, and the competition to supply the product would intensify. Cartels would fight the government and each other even more to control precious supply lanes through borders...
...Second: fight back on terrorism. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the biggest opposition party, has been relentlessly criticizing the Congress Party for being "soft on terror" - India has suffered through a dozen serial blasts over the past two years. The BJP stepped up its rhetoric after the three-day terrorism attacks in Mumbai, but in this speech Gandhi struck back sharply. He reminded the crowd that it was a BJP government that negotiated the handover of three Muslim extremists to end the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in Kandahar, Afghanistan, a decision that proved disastrous...
...city's tourist officials are also championing Obama's vocal position on the drug trade. "He has taken the big step in recognizing that America has a major responsibility in this fight," says Jahdiel Vargas, director of Tijuana's Tourism and Conventions Committee. "He has been much clearer about this than previous U.S. Presidents." Obama has promised to step up efforts to stop guns and drug money from heading south and to increase direct aid to Mexico in the fight against the cartels...