Word: fray
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...simple analogies to describe complex problems. But what they do reveal is a growing anxiety over the long-term nature of the Iraq occupation. Nor is there much comfort in the observation by those coalition-of-the-willing Spanish, who are finally sending 1,100 troops to join the fray in Iraq, that the situation there is not at all like Vietnam. No, says the daily El-Mundo, it's more like the Palestinian intifada...
During this time, Mansfield was a serious student who had few friends and preferred to remain outside the fray of political debate...
...happen to find a winning issue, you can be sure that Karl Rove, the President's strategist, will figure out a way to trump or co-opt it (as he did with education and Medicare prescription-drug benefits in the election of 2000). And the Democrats enter the fray with all the shape and substance of fog. "People have no idea what we stand for," says Stan Greenberg, a Democratic pollster. "They have a vague sense that we were against the war in Iraq and a vaguer sense that things were somehow better economically when we were in power. Beyond...
...outlined his master plan for total art-world domination, based on the premise that New York still decides what art matters: "1. First, gain recognition on site (New York) ... 2. With this recognition as my parachute, I will make my landing back in Japan ... 3. Back overseas, into the fray." So how far does he think he has progressed in his quest? Murakami relaxes for a moment, looks around and grins, as if he's got a secret. "I think that Louis Vuitton is a big part of accomplishing No. 2. What I would like to do now is break...
Mirkin entered the legal fray last Thursday as an “intervener” on the side of the school system. Mirkin said yesterday he acted in defense of the targets of Hornstine’s suit...