Word: gaines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Political conflicts involving legitimate political movements and their extreme political terrorist offshoots have been resolved successfully by bringing the political moderates into a position where they have more to gain by participating in a democratic political process than by implicitly allowing extremists to wage war (as Muslim leaders do when they fail to publicly condemn bin Laden and his followers). At a crucial moment in the process, it becomes detrimental to the goals of the political movement to condone violent extremists, and then, usually, they are self-policed into oblivion. This week the legitimate political wing of the Northern Ireland...
...wish to alleviate it. When the question regards the use of surplus embryos from fertilization clinics, many respond as Lecturer on Ethics in Science Louis M. Guenin did in the journal Science—that “relieving widespread suffering is morally better than destroying embryos at no gain...
...month anniversary of Evan’s accident was Tuesday. Make a pilgrimage to Holworthy and view the toenail, a desiccated grayish brown chip in a orange pill vial. Evan’s final thought on the accident: “I guess not all pain is gain...
Last night’s hearing had been rescheduled from last Tuesday, an indication that behind the scenes D’Alessandro has been working to gain more support from School Committee members. At the hearing, Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio, the School Committee chair, suggested a unanimous vote was possible if the plan was further refined...
...even after Ridge establishes his place within the White House, he still has to gain the respect and trust of the rest of the intelligence community. The largest agencies, the NSA, the FBI and the CIA, enjoy tremendous autonomy and are viciously territorial. For these agencies to share information with each other and the White House and to take orders from the President, Ridge will have to scratch and claw every inch of the way. Unless the Office of Homeland Security is given some power over the budgets of those agencies, they’re unlikely to respond...