Word: nascent
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...Qaeda to intensify the fight and take it to an international level," says Christophe Chaboud, head of France's Anti-Terrorism Coordination Unit. "The association with al-Qaeda is a real and major preoccupation." But, says Chaboud, such a partnership has yet to give rise to even a nascent federation of al-Qaeda groups across north Africa. Even within borders, jihadist groups remain disparate, atomized, and insulated to prevent infiltration...
...WHEN HE WAS AN unknown foreign policy wonk in the Kennedy Administration, Warren Wiggins wrote an impassioned treatise on the promise of Kennedy's still nascent Peace Corps, urging its leaders to fight to make it more than just a small agency to generate good publicity. On reading it, Sargent Shriver, the Corps's first director, who was then trying to define the agency, distributed the memo to his staff and fired off a 3 a.m. telegram demanding that Wiggins meet with him the next morning. Within four weeks, an Executive Order gave birth to the Peace Corps. Wiggins...
...Fosado says the region's nascent pro-choice movement is simply "counteracting" the Church's own device of erasing the public health factor from the discussion. That conversation may be more open now in Latin America - but at the same, it's giving an already socially fractured continent one more issue to divide...
Often, the ideological intransigence of Hamas is blamed for impeding Palestinian unity. But on Sunday it was the moderate Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas who dealt a potentially debilitating blow to the nascent Palestinian "unity" government - by appointing Mohammed Dahlan, the most divisive figure on the Palestinian political scene today, to the office of National Security Adviser...
...role of fun czar has evolved since the position’s creation in 2004, moving from planning campus-wide social events to developing the nascent student-led College Events Board. A focus for the coming year will be to take these developments and “work with students to make some institutional history around it,” according to Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin...