Word: gordian
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Approaching the case of Baby M the New Jersey Supreme Court might have wished for the sword of Solomon -- not to divide the child, but to cut through the Gordian thicket of paradox, bad faith and conflicting feelings that has surrounded the matter from the start. As it turned out, in a unanimous ruling last week the court sliced the issue in a way that gave important concessions to both the parents, but cut to the quick the practice of surrogacy...
...history by the leaders of two adversary nations to resolve a point of tension between them. Never before has the word elimination appeared in the heading of a nuclear arms-control treaty. It is a dramatic example of the practitioners of nuclear diplomacy taking a sword to the Gordian knot...
...hardliner as Defense Secretary, arguing that the U.S. must struggle to overcome what he saw as the Soviets' military superiority. Yet as a pragmatic politician and the latest in a line of Ford alumni advising Reagan, he may provoke some criticism from the far right. Dealing with the Gordian knot of Middle East politics and coping with the inflammable situation in Lebanon, however, are tasks far more suited to a wrestler than an ideologue. Rumsfeld's first move will have to be an attempt to get a hammer lock on the shifting complexities of the situation in Lebanese...
...addition to the educational value of the topics discussed, participants said the conference was particularly relevant to minority pre-medical students. Reflecting on her undergraduate Education. Maria A Gordian '83, one of the day's chief organizers, said. "The Harvard pre-med education does not address the ethical and social issues related to medicine...
...always been the object of debate and doubt. Their range would not permit them to reach Moscow, and the targets that they could hit in the western regions of the U.S.S.R. were also covered by American intercontinental and submarine-based missiles. Nitze was convinced that cutting the Gordian knot," as he put it last week, and reaching an agreement that both reduced the SS-20s and allowed the U.S. to introduce cruise missiles was well worth the sacrifice of the Pershing IIs. However, Perle, who was once Nitze's protégé and ally, vehemently opposed the plan. At Perle...