Word: neutralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into a gold medalist's gush ("I can't believe it. Ohmygod. This is unbelievable"). He was another competitor, one gathered, who would subscribe to the Street-wise logic: "One of the things about Japan is that it is very far removed from everyone's comfort zone. It's neutral territory for everyone...
...Neutral, perhaps, but by no means dispassionate, as one saw, even in distant Karuizawa, a chic summer resort that found itself the host for curling competitions. Not far from the Pension England House Windsor, the town held its very own opening ceremonies, with its own parade of athletes, its own concert of bagpipers and Japanese drums. As the competition got under way, the Kazakoshi Park Arena--not unlike a high school gym--was filled with Japanese primary schoolchildren, old ladies blowing Piccolo Mini Cheer Horns and a crowd of Canadians crying, "Come on, button boy. Stop, baby, stop." Here...
...chief objective in Iraq is to facilitate United Nations' arms inspections, bombing the country is not the most sensible approach. The Hussein regime has allowed some U.N. weapons inspectors, but objects to certain inspection units due to a perceived anti-Iraq bias. Finding competent and neutral inspectors whom both the U.N. and Iraq can agree upon is not impossible. Consulting the Iraqis puts the ball in their court and pushes them to show commitment to fair and just inspections...
...itself. Because it provides such wide-ranging powers, it can make even the most scrupulous prosecutor look at times like the Grand Inquisitor. The unlimited budget and open-ended time frame of an independent counsel give Starr's probe an ominous bulk even when it's idling in neutral, as it was during much of the year before the latest scandal exploded. "Any federal prosecutor has more resources than the target of his investigation, but other federal prosecutors must assign priorities among investigations," says Theodore Olson, a former assistant attorney general in the Justice Department who was investigated...
...know they have a very good team." Higdon said. "However, if we focus on what we've been taught--staying out of the box, congesting the neutral zone, we should come...