Word: gulf
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...know why we had been breaking the law in the first place. This led to the sort of complicated discussion one hopes never to have with a young child--all about how we break the law at home while pretending to observe Islamic codes outside. In recent years, the gulf between public and private life in Iran had shrunk, a happy development, especially for parents, who saw their children more willing than at any time before the revolution to spend their lives inside the country. But talking to my nephew, I could almost feel the gap being stretched wide open...
...also clear that Florida's losing Democratic Party had suffered wounds, some of them self-inflicted, that would take years to recover from. Until this year, in fact, Democrats seemed virtually irrelevant in the state legislature, and their 2002 and 2006 gubernatorial candidates had all the charisma of Gulf sea sponges. While the party triumphed all over the country in last year's national elections, the only major Republican opponent it defeated in Florida was Senate candidate and former Secretary of State Katherine Harris - an erratic lightweight who most G.O.P. leaders privately hoped would lose...
With the gouge issue off the radar for now, NASA turned its attention to the next blip on the screen: Hurricane Dean, now pounding the islands of the Caribbean and drag-racing Endeavour toward the Gulf - right under the shuttle's landing-day flight path...
...where most of it will be going. Sakhalin Energy (SE), an international consortium led by Shell and the Russia's state-owned Gazprom, is spending $20 billion to mine the waters around Sakhalin; one executive says the island could eventually become as important to the industry as the Gulf of Mexico. SE is finishing a pair of underground 500-mile pipelines down the spine of the island that will deliver oil and natural gas to the one of the biggest liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals in the world, from which it will be exported to the energy-hungry economies...
...claimed, was at best a perversion of basic legal principles, cloaked in republican ideology. Most commentators in the United States lined up in defence of the liberal pluralism in which we North Americans are schooled from birth. But the defensiveness with which Americans reacted to the ban reflects a gulf that goes much deeper than the relative strength of one’s commitment to defending religious freedom...