Word: neutralization
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...Most neutral observers believe the case is simply bogged down in the Tanzanian legal system and that New Zealand is only representing a deceased citizen and looking out for the interests of his family, who find it difficult to accept that he would take his own life. Kerstin's relatives, however, are frustrated by what they see as "bureaucratic anarchy." She is jailed, they feel, because of undue pressure from New Zealand politicians, including former Finance Minister Bill Birch-who represented the Camerons' district of Port Waikato, south of Auckland, in Parliament-and former Foreign Minister Don McKinnon...
Most of our faculty considers the Harvard name to be either neutral (at best) or a profound negative (at worst) when considering college graduates for admission to our facility...
...quickly become Harvard's specialty teams whiz this season, poke-checked the puck into the neutral zone off the faceoff in his own zone. Moore skirted a Colgate defenseman and wheeled down the ice to come in alone on goaltender David Cann. Cann stopped the initial backhander, but Moore batted home his own rebound to put the Crimson...
...definition, but rather a more informal gathering of the people who run the world to discuss the big picture - the really, really big picture, about where the world is headed. And attendance is strictly by invitation only, a fact underlined by the largest deployment in decades of the traditionally neutral Swiss army, to keep at bay the thousands of anti-globalization protesters who would dearly love to spoil the party...
...still there on the map, of course - a territorial behemoth the size of Western Europe, stretching from Sudan in Africa's northeast to Angola and Zambia in its southwest. It has a flag (although its bland blue banner spangled with an assortment of gold stars looks more like the neutral emblem of some forgotten international organization). And an anthem, too. Its government issues passports and postage stamps and national budgets, and maintains a standing army. But for most of its people, the government in Kinshasa has been an authority as distant as any colonial power. As a state...