Word: neutralizes
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...main political parties-the secular, nationalist Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina and the more Islamic-leaning and pro-business Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by outgoing Prime Minister Khaleda Zia-agreed that the incumbent party would step down a couple of months before every election. A neutral caretaker government would briefly run the country and the election commission until a new government was elected. The system is an admission of the coddling Bangladesh's democracy needs to survive. But, despite some hiccups, it has worked ever since, with the two parties alternating in power after elections that...
...Nazi-occupied Holland. By the time Otto wrote his letters, the U.S. consulate in the Netherlands had closed, so he made attempts to arrange passage for his family to the United States or Cuba. He also explored possible escape routes through Spain that would ultimately lead to exit via neutral Portugal and sought visas to Paris...
...Qassem insists that Iran is a neutral actor in the crisis, saying it is the U.S. that is partisan in openly backing the government against Hizballah...
...Nifong had just asked the North Carolina Attorney General's office to remove him from the case against three members of the school's lacrosse team. The information went out via instant messages, phone texts, e-mail and old-fashioned word of mouth. Duke, of course, is not a neutral spectator in the controversy. Several students have gone around wearing wristbands that declare "INNOCENT #6, #13, #45 DUKE LACROSSE 2006" - a reference to the team numbers of the three accused. Almost all students cheered the news. "Everybody has been saying that he's got to go," says senior Rachel Weeks...
...unrest is one of the few things the women have ever agreed on. After Bangladesh returned to democracy in 1991 following years of military rule, the two main political parties agreed that the incumbent party would step down a couple of months before every election and allow a neutral caretaker government to run the country and oversee the election commission until a new government was elected and sworn in. The system is an admission of the coddling Bangladesh's democracy needs just to survive but, with some hiccups, it had worked. Until...