Word: flank
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...course, Bowles could wear the pink suit and still not flank her on gender. Women greet the Harvard Law grad and former Secretary of both Labor and Transportation like a rock star. By hiding a steel magnolia under a sweet one, she puts powerful men at ease while racing past them, a trait many women could...
...like old times, he charmed the locals on a late-night run to McDonald's. After warmup music that included (to sniggers from the audience) Kiss Me and Uptown Girl, his speech was a TelePrompter-free tour de force that gave crucial support to Blair on his other exposed flank - Iraq. All week delegates had been voicing unease about George W. Bush's push toward war and what Blair admitted was a "fear it's being done for the wrong motives." They didn't like being out of the European mainstream, which was summed up in the "total hostility" French...
Moral certainty is potent stuff, and it comes with some nifty fringe benefits. Bush's conservative flank finds it deeply appealing; the current crop of Democratic leaders are rendered virtually speechless by it. But moral certainty "without trying to nuance," as Bush put it, is a dangerous luxury for a President. If you operate as though Arafat is a terrorist and Israel a victim, you isolate the U.S. from moderate Arab states, who see their region in shades of gray. That could limit your options--and your allies--after you have told everyone that Saddam Hussein can no longer...
...Chinese culture after the noodles, head for the hills to Tera-machi, or temple street, so named for the shrines that flank its winding path, the largest of them built by Chinese immigrants in the early 1600s. It's a great place to jog in the early morning, when the air is thick with incense and the temple keepers sweep the grounds...
...equation, rendering moot traditional concerns over the sensibilities of the "Arab street." In this view, according to the New York Times, is that "an Iraq under new governance could become a new Western ally, helping to reduce American dependency on bases in Saudi Arabia, to secure Israel's eastern flank and act as a wedge between Iran and Syria." The idea of a democratic Iraq remaining intact as a single national entity, let alone becoming an overnight ally of the West, is at the very least regarded with some skepticism. And talk of a democratic Arab state "securing Israel...