Word: neutralizing
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Recent polls put Dukakis and Murphy ahead of the GOP team of George Kariotis and Nicholas M. Nikitas by 69-20 percent. As a result, most attention on the race since September's primary has focused on how well the former duo get on together, as the nominally neutral Dukakis was reported to favor primary victim and State Senator Gerard D'Amico of Worcester for lieutenant governor...
Proposition 1 provides no exceptions for rape or incest victims, however it miraculously and magnanimously allows abortions "required to prevent the death of the mother." Note the use of the word mother instead of pregnant woman. Whose mother? This is not neutral language. Even though the proposed amendment was not written to decide the question of when life begins, the assumption here is that abortion means a mother killing her baby, not a woman terminating her pregnancy...
Although its people think of themselves as neutral, Iceland has been a NATO member since 1949. The country has neither an army nor a navy, but the Keflavik base, which monitors Soviet ship traffic in the crucial North Atlantic sea-lanes, is staffed by some 3,000 U.S. military personnel. When Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze was discussing the summit, he told reporters that his delegation knew they would be safe in Reykjavik. Why? "You (Americans) have a very big base there," he said, smiling...
...which is required by law to be neutral on the subject of an employees' union, has refrained from commenting on the NATCA organizing effort...
RICH AND BORING, John Dyson was the closest thing to Cuomo's man for Senate, though the governor did officially remain neutral during the primary. Dyson's claim to fame is his development of the flashy "I Love New York" campaign and a $30-million personal treasury. Lacking discernible oratorical skills, he presents no challenge to Cuomo's hold on the state's bully pulpit...