Word: outwait
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...cops, like that of medical students and war correspondents, tends to be gruesome, outrageous and, in a brutal sort of way, funny. No doubt it gets slightly funnier when there is a civilian around whose leg can be pulled. Interviewer Mark Baker, however, clearly knows how to nod and outwait the baloney as he plays the journalist's strongest card, which is his knowledge that people have a powerful urge to explain themselves...
...wisdom that we must act only when we know when and how to get out, but that makes no sense; if a situation is benign enough to permit this, it probably doesn't require intervention in the first place, and a previously announced exit date merely invites troublemakers to outwait us. You distrust the United Nations, but you should not blame it for American errors. Lately the U.N., with American acquiescence, has tended to overreach, acting like the world government it is not; still the U.N. remains useful, not as an enforcer but as a facilitator of peace. We should...
...China's sexual revolution. The cover of the inaugural issue of Sex Education was officially stamped as a magazine limited to bureaucrats rather than for sale to the public, which will make it harder for the fledgling journal to turn a profit. The fact that investors seem willing to outwait the government -- and that the first issue sold out -- has led optimists to conclude that Chinese pragmatism will ultimately govern the debate over how much sexual liberation China can tolerate. "The influence of the feudal society in China remains deeply rooted," concedes a Sex Education editorial. But, it asks...
Elsewhere, the Palestinian lawyer and author Raj'a Shehade refines this sullen fatalism as sumud, a word he uses to express his determination to endure and outwait Israel: "Of the two ways open to me as a Palestinian -- to surrender to the occupation and collaborate with it, or to take up arms against it, two possibilities which mean, to my mind, losing one's humanity -- I choose the third way. To remain here. To see how my home becomes my prison, which I do not want to leave, because the jailer will then not allow me to return...
...incorporated build-down into the U.S. approach and offered to explore trade-offs between the areas of U.S. and Soviet advantage. These trade-offs offered the best prospects for a breakthrough. Unfortunately, the Soviets were unwilling even to discuss tradeoffs. The Soviets are highly patient and will attempt to outwait the West, hoping that we will negotiate among ourselves. Talbott fails completely to recognize this tried-and-true Soviet tactic. Edward L. Rowny, Chairman U.S. START Delegation Washington...