Word: neutralizes
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...Enron saga goes on, idling in something like neutral for now while the tidbits and hints of intrigue continue to pile up in the wings. And the death of Cliff Baxter may well prove totemic by the time it's all said and done - there's so much we don't know, and so many who didn't want us to know it, that if lawmakers expend all their energy chasing the ghosts of Enron instead of cleaning up the laws involved, it may find that after all the sound and fury they've learned little and cured less...
...period’s 14th minute, junior forward Tracy Catlin received a pass from Hagerman in the neutral zone and broke in on the right side. She then sent a pass across the offensive zone to incoming freshmen forward Kat Sweet on the left. Sweet made the most of her opportunity, scoring her second goal of the season...
Classic recessions start with the Fed fearing inflation and aggressively raising interest rates to choke off excess business investment. They end with the Fed defeating the inflation foe and slowly cutting rates again. This one started with inflation practically nil and the Fed in neutral. With no inflation threat--indeed, with deflation the bigger worry in some camps--the Fed has been aggressively cutting rates. Those cuts are working to stimulate the economy, but not in the usual...
...None of those ideas, nationalism, fundamentalism, or the belief in absolute truth, is good or bad in and of itself. Like Aristotle's view of rhetoric as a tool that could be used for good or ill, they're neutral concepts that are open to abuse, and only become dangerous when pressed...
...They kept us in the neutral zone well,” Hagerman said. “I think they wanted to tire us out because they kept on dumping the puck and forcing us to make mistakes...