Word: neutralizes
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...spiritualities that Americans began importing as replacements for their own moribund faiths in the '60s and '70s, Zen has always been the favorite to actually survive the trip and work a genuine change upon the American psyche. So unorthodox is Zen in its very orthodoxy, so hyperdistilled and culturally neutral are its tenets (when it admits to having any at all), that it is the obvious candidate for a metaspirituality immune to the corruptions that always seem to end up plaguing religious institutions and their all-too-human members...
...meantime, the interest-rate cycle has turned. Last week the Fed declared itself officially out of the stimulus game, returning its interest-rate bias to neutral after 11 straight cuts and readying the markets for a return to - gasp - inflation watch. Greenspan won't be intervening in this economy again until it's time to slow it down, and the bond markets aren't waiting, pushing up market interest rates on those very fears. The window of opportunity that gave consumers most of their extra 2001 spending power - great mortgage-refinancing deals and low-interest rate loans - is closing fast...
Businesses working in troubled regions often develop relationships with more elements of a country's society, including those that may be hostile to the government, than does the CIA. To stay neutral in a conflict, some businesses even risk irritating their host governments by hiring members of rebel groups. The CIA, as Badolato puts it, "doesn't stay in with the outs." A formal agreement between the U.S. and Britain prevents the two from spying in each other's country, Baer says. That means the U.S. could not have useful operatives in London mosques, and the British just...
...They generate most of their offense off of turnovers—through counterattacks and initial rush opportunities,” he said. “They have a very strong forecheck. They’re very aggressive in neutral zone. It’s more of a ‘1-4’ where they try to trap you, make you turn the puck over, and then really counterattack...
...warning, and demolished 60 houses in the Rafah refugee camp, near the Egyptian border. Families awoke in panic, grabbed their children and fled, while the bulldozers destroyed their houses with all their possessions inside. Over 600 people were made homeless that night. It is hard to think of any neutral definition of terrorism that would not encompass this...