Word: neutral
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...Chinese culture, the Emperor is Emperor until he dies, and the new leaders can't do anything until he's left the scene," says TIME News Service director Richard Hornik, a former Beijing bureau chief, who coordinated our reporting effort. "So China has been stuck in neutral for the past few years." Last week the country shifted back into gear...
...minutes later, MacDonald scored again off a feed from sophomore winger Robbie Millar. Millar sped up the ice from just inside the neutral zone into the middle of the right face-off circle, splitting two defensemen in the process...
Once we see that the unborn child is indeed a living human being, we can no longer be neutral on the abortion issue. Yet, as Kwan points out, many Americans are neutral on abortion, in that a large majority (69%) think that abortion is "the wrong thing to do," but that the government does not have "any business preventing a women from having an abortion." Kwan concludes that "Americans are reluctant to impose their morals on the great public." But we do this all the time--they're called laws. The logic here seems to say, 'don't like abortion...
...might be better if the office of president took a more neutral role, he said...
...case of the Swiss and the Holocaust plays interesting variations on the theme of remembering and forgetting. The Swiss for decades have nestled complacently in the myth of their wartime virtue. They were neutral in their fastness. Their mountains and their citizen army kept the Germans off and preserved their tidy civilization...