Word: mending
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...Bush Administration works to mend fences with old allies and meet mounting challenges, it is retiring its role as the lone cowboy riding out to remake the world. Readers formed opposing camps over the transition, either praising pre-emption or breathing a sigh of relief at seeing it laid to rest...
...Caveat emptor, Michael. And, incidentally, caveat emptor, moviegoers. Turns out the gizmo Mort provides can fast-forward or rewind or freeze-frame life itself. This permits Michael to see how things will work out for him if he does not mend his workaholic ways, which is, putting it mildly, not very well. Yes, he gets his partnership in the architectural practice that is, when we meet him, stealing from him all the quality time he wants to spend with his wife - the divinely perky Kate Beckinsale - and their adorable offspring. But at what cost - he grows fat, gets divorced, suffers...
Brown has come under withering criticism from African Americans and civil libertarians who say he has turned Oakland into a police state, and the cops are under a court order to mend their more abusive habits. Some Brown critics have said he has adopted a tough-on-crime stance to help him elsewhere in the state in his race for attorney general. But as Brown questions the cops at headquarters, he doesn't sound like their friend. How many cops are on the street right now? How many of them are on patrol, and how many are responding to calls...
...latest wave of attacks, though, is different. The government dismisses mend and similar groups as the same criminal gangs responsible for bunkering and past attacks - and there is undoubtedly some crossover of membership. The region is awash with unemployed men; weapons are easy to find, either left over from the 2003 election or smuggled in by boat from neighboring countries. But the latest attacks appear to have been driven more by frustration and an ideology of armed resistance than by thoughts of criminal gain. While it is "very difficult to draw a line between the criminals and the so-called...
...poll could prove bloody. Human-rights lawyer Nsirimovu says opposition groups have realized "that AK-47s are a necessary ingredient in elections in the Niger Delta," and will try to arm their own supporters in an attempt to counter ruling-party intimidation. "Then things will get really ugly." mend, too, is looking toward the election. A militant from the group who spoke with Time on condition of anonymity said that it would fight efforts by supporters of Obasanjo to change the constitution to allow the President to run for a third term - moves that last week looked as if they...