Word: mannerize
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...manner in which lawmakers are trying to curb cigarette smoking is flawed, there also seems to be a problem with the premise of limiting smoking at all. Te chief complaint of non-smokers, repeated over and over like the sort of modern-day mantra they might use in their yoga classes, is that cigarette smoke isn't just bad for the smoker but for society as well. Non-smokers, even those out all worried about the possible health risks they might incur from second hand smoke...
...Japan and other wealthy countries agreed to provide $2 billion over the next three years to help poor countries develop in an environmentally sound manner (as opposed to the way the wealthy countries did it). The aid will be used to rejuvenate the U. N.-sponsored Global Environment Facility...
...stands really has an impact on student life, then students would notice a dramatic decline in activities. If this were to happen, contributions would likely increase the next year, or independent student groups might pick up the slack, organizing activities and securing funding in a less devious manner...
...will respond to their arguments in an intelligent and deathly serious manner. Given that this is not the way I normally work as an editorialist, dear reader, I hope you will appreciate my sacrifice...
This realization came too late to Nussbaum, who brought to Washington the truculent manner of a big-city courtroom litigator and the political instincts of a country parson. His involvement in several notable White House debacles, including the travel-office uproar, the extended search for an Attorney General and the choice of an easily targeted Lani Guinier for a top Justice Department post, earned him the reputation of a Beltway naif and worse. Until last week the most serious charges against him involved his actions after the apparent suicide last year of White House lawyer Vincent Foster, when Nussbaum interfered...