Word: nip
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...their words that emotion inevitably followed. Indeed, these taboo appearances of genuine feeling have come to serve as the only indicator that a politician is anything more than a partisan mouthpiece. Sure, Hillary has plenty of flaws, and her own public persona hasn’t escaped the scrupulous nip-and-tuck required of all presidential hopefuls. It doesn’t help that her natural temperament is only slightly warmer than a New Hampshire winter; in a college letter, she perceptively defined herself as “Hillary Rodham, acknowledged agnostic intellectual liberal, emotional conservative...
...year ago, Harvard was the underestimated team looking to make a statement. In 2008, the Crimson will have to do what Dartmouth couldn’t: nip an upset bid in the bud, and halt a league rival before it picks up speed...
...British Columbia researchers calculate that current subsidies for high-sea bottom-trawling amount to just over $150 million, a small fraction of the $30 billion that governments spend yearly to prop up a global fishing industry that produces twice as much as is sustainable. "It's important to nip these subsidies in the bud before more interests get barnacled around them," says University of British Columbia's Rashid Sumaila, who has advised the World Trade Organization on the issue. "Eliminating them would render these fleets economically unviable and would relieve tremendous pressure on over-fishing and vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems...
...whimsically titled “Sugar”—over the process of buying a Twinkie. He compares it to trying to buy a pack of condoms: both involve the characteristic guilty body language, the overt attempts at subtlety, and the cashier’s tendency to nip the purchaser’s unobtrusiveness in the bud. A few scenes later, Jon’s best friend reveals that he is seriously ill, and Jon blanches, tears in his eyes. From “Sugar” to shock, “tick, tick…BOOM...
...strong preference for families of four and five children. That has now been replaced with a general desire for smaller families, enough so that the official two-child limit has been eased. Sultan Aziz, the U.N. Population Fund's Asia-Pacific director, says Vietnam might still be able to nip the gender imbalance in the bud. "If any country can do that," Aziz says. "Vietnam...