Word: nip
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...catch-up. Every new d4T will mean yet another battle, another struggle for access. This is not a sustainable solution. At the University of Minnesota, for example, students are currently struggling to get their school to drop developing-country patents on Abacavir, another critical AIDS drug. We need to nip these problems in the bud. Universities like Harvard should adopt policies that ensure that their health-related discoveries truly benefit the global public welfare...
...take the city - which they regard as their Jerusalem - for themselves. The Turks would fear that revenues from the oil fields would allow the Kurds to create a viable independent state, thus destabilizing its own large Kurdish minority. So Turkey would send in tens of thousands of troops to nip that possibility in the bud. And America would have a civil war in the north while it was still trying to pacify Baghdad...
...Prompt action by local health authorities can nip an outbreak in the bud, saving lives and billions of dollars. "When you confront new diseases and they begin to travel widely, you have to do everything you can to try to stop the transmission," says World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Dick Thompson. "Maximum efforts in the beginning are justified." Although doctors and scientists decline to point fingers, it's increasingly clear that the Hong Kong government failed to recognize the potential threat when SARS first surfaced and downplayed its impact to avoid panic and bad publicity. As a result, the virus...
...other side is Strom Thurmond. He will nip this sudden surge of Democracy in the bud. Jack Robinson will go back to the Negro Leagues and his Georgia homestead. Currently the support for Thurmond appears strong only in the Great States of South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, but we must correct for this by delivering Massachusetts and all of New England as well...
...most compelling figure?never takes his good luck for granted. In his studies he remains true to his roots as a hardworking peasant, rising before dawn to pore over piles of flash cards, "relishing the real taste of pretty words and beautiful phrases such as nostalgia, willow bay, nip and tuck, nape of the neck and tiptoe," and struggling his way through Jack London and James Michener. By the heartwarming tale's end, the bumbling country boy Chen Da is well on his way to becoming the talented American writer, Da Chen...