Word: pathways
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...unless Administration background checkers failed to find what they needed to know about Sotomayor's history, those spoiling for a battle are not going to get one. Most Republicans will squelch their first instinct to go to the mattresses and instead follow the President's pathway: avoid a fight...
...They don't claim they've proved it, though - in fact, they carefully include a disclaimer that "we are not advocating this here." Even if they were, though, and even if paleontologists all agreed on the matter, Ida could at best be considered a first step on an evolutionary pathway that took another 40 million years to reach the divergence point between chimps and our earliest hominid ancestors. (See the secrets of London's buried bones...
Asked when he would draft a new bill to allow Mexicans to work legally in the United States, Obama was also evasive. "I voted twice for comprehensive immigration reform that would have provided a pathway for legalization and improvement of the orderly path of migrants into the United States," he said. "We came close to getting that kind of a reform done several years ago and then it became politicized. My whole goal is to remove the politics out of this and take a very practical commonsense approach." An estimated six million of the 11 million Mexicans currently working...
Gerry Adams—president of Sinn Féin, the second-largest political party in Northern Ireland—eschewed the recent violence in his home country in a speech at a packed Institute of Politics last night. “The pathway forward is a strong one toward peace and reconciliation,” Adams said. “The story of Ireland was one of death and distress.” Adams last spoke at Harvard in 1994, when Northern Ireland and Sinn Féin—which has been historically associated with the Irish Republican...
...It’s always been a very difficult thing to do,” Szostak said. “It opens up more interesting experiences where you make something useful. It’s a step in a long pathway [to creating artificial life...