Word: grounded
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Even the most ardent Saddam hunters have to admit that taking him out would entail a huge, high-risk military operation: months of preparation to deploy thousands of ground troops to fight their way to the Iraqi capital while courting substantial casualties, then arrest or kill him. The U.S. would be pitched into an open-ended occupation and saddled with rescuing a devastated economy...
...days earlier, all over the island, faithful citizens had scattered roasted soybeans, in the annual Setsubun ceremony, crying, "Devils go out! Happiness come in!" Now a sumo wrestler whose Japanese name is an ancient word for dawn, attended by a sword-bearer and a dew sweeper, ritually purified the ground on a chilly silver morning. In something of the same spirit, International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch reminded the world (not least Baghdad and Washington) that the "Olympic truce" calls for an end to formal warfare during the competition...
...cold winter's evening, Jaworski went to dinner with the TIME Washington bureau and some of TIME's editors from New York. Setting the ground rules for the evening, one of the New Yorkers announced that on that occasion, we were all "gentlemen, not journalists"; that is, Jaworski's comments were "off the record." Toward the end of the evening, Jaworski said he wanted to speak hypothetically. What if, he wondered, a new prosecutor had arrived from Texas and heard the tapes and found they contained enough evidence to indict the President for obstruction of justice. Wouldn...
...just going to play a real hard, physical game," Allman said, "and strive to capitalize on our chances while not surrendering too many opportunities. We need these games to pick up ground...
...disorder which, left untreated, can manifest itself in serious physical and psychological symptoms causing profound distress to the individual and his/her loved ones, increasing his/her predisposition for developing co-morbid disorders, and unfortunately all too often, precipitating selfmutilatory behavior and/or suicidality. Depression is not a disorder in the middle ground between "something...scientific...[and] being stressed...