Word: motioning
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...most of the captured land going back to the Arabs. But there came only more wars -- the War of Attrition in 1969-70, the October War of 1973. Only in 1977 did Egyptian President Anwar Sadat break the stalemate by traveling to Jerusalem to set a partial peace in motion. In 1979 Israel agreed to return all of the Sinai to Egypt in return for the formal peace treaty negotiated with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Jimmy Carter at Camp David. That event was one of Israel's finer moments, but its full promise was never realized. Sadat...
...they thought, he might accede to the Iraq Study Group, admit errors and lead us to gradual defeat. Neither would have required Democrats to do anything much except lament the lamentable situation into which Bush had got us. Instead, Bush replaced Rumsfeld, rejected the Iraq Study Group's slow-motion-withdrawal option and chose to try a new strategy for victory, backed by a troop surge. The Democrats were genuinely shocked that Bush wouldn't behave as if the war was lost...
...Motion Picture Academy loves them too. Babel earned seven Oscar nominations, Pan's Labyrinth six. That's more than The Departed or Letters from Iwo Jima or Little Miss Sunshine received, and just short of Dreamgirls' eight...
Tatsuro Sasaya lives by Newton's Third Law of Motion. "If people go one way, I go the other way," he says, which might be the only explanation for his decision to move back to his economically depressed hometown of Yubari on Japan's cold northern island of Hokkaido. When the 49-year-old Sasaya was growing up here, it was a thriving city of over 100,000 people, most working in the coalmines scattered throughout the surrounding mountains. But by the time Sasaya had left for college in Tokyo, the mines were closing and many of the townsfolk...
...will tell you, is to grip the ball with your dominant hand like a quarterback would, and use your weak hand, or guide, for support. You release the ball through your legs with both hands, but your legs provide most of the power. "It's a full body motion," says Mannelly. He usually flicks 75 balls per practice session, and his favorite drill is to hit the goal post from 15 yards away (you can even watch him do it on his website...