Word: fray
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...biology or by citizenship papers. The Wongs' teenage daughter Lizzy, adopted as an abandoned baby, complains that no one knows exactly who she is or where she comes from: she's "soup du jour." But as The Love Wife opens and the Wongs' connections to each other begin to fray, Jen shows Lizzy is hardly alone?American confusion may be the American identity...
...London. Over the weekend an ambiguous resolution seemed to take hold as al-Sadr's fighters removed weapons from the shrine and the numbers holed up inside dwindled from as many as 2,000 early in the week to a few hundred. But their leader emerged from the fray with much of his militia intact...
Although Ducey remained above the fray, his departure comes after months of criticism of the recommendations of the mental health task force’s report, which was released this spring following a year-long review of Harvard’s mental health resources...
...forcing the Soviet Union to go bankrupt in its efforts to keep up with the U.S.'s surge in military spending, culminating in the Strategic Defense Initiative, the Star Wars program. Many critics of Reagan's foreign policy have pointed out, however, that as the Soviet Union started to fray, there was a real chance it would end with a nuclear bang rather than a whimper. Had the U.S.S.R. not been lucky enough to draw Mikhail Gorbachev instead of, say, Yuri Andropov as its last leader, the odds are high the outcome would have been very...
...Meanwhile, an intelligence heavyweight last week entered the fray with a new reform proposal that is already gathering high-level attention. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss - a former CIA clandestine services officer and leading contender for CIA director if President Bush is re-elected - quietly introduced a bill that would significantly expand the CIA director's executive and management authority over the whole intelligence community, a Goss spokesman confirmed to TIME. While the Director of Central Intelligence has responsibility for all intelligence gathering, more than 80 percent of the spy budget is outside the CIA's control, much...