Word: pave
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...with it?" the boy asked. "There is a lot of denial," Carolyn Jessop says, and Jeffs still commands loyalty despite his imprisonment. Jeffs moved the FLDS "aristocracy" to Texas, Jessop says, and little girls were given great status as they were married off to older men: "spiritual marriages" (polygamy) pave the way to the highest ring of heaven, and this enhances the girls' social position...
...events, a man of conservative bent who has been prodded by historical forces to act progressively, even boldly. It is not implausible to argue that whoever succeeded P.W. Botha as President of South Africa would have been compelled to release Nelson Mandela, dismantle the apparatus of apartheid and pave the way to the promised land of one-man, one-vote elections. For his part, Nelson Mandela has always taken the path of most resistance. The son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was groomed to be a traditional tribal leader but chose instead to become an outlaw in his own land...
...offense. A serious, sustained research program is not a bargaining chip and should not be used as one. However, a research program that is driven by good science rather than high-pressure politics would not hold out false hopes for large-scale population defense; and yet it still could pave the way for a grand compromise by inducing the Soviets to agree to significant cuts in offensive weapons in return for reinforcing old agreements that limit the development of defensive systems. Indeed, the Soviets have recently begun exploring ways to restrict SDI by reaffirming the ABM treaty of 1972. That...
...government's trial of its vaccine, PAVE, for Partnership for AIDS Vaccine Evaluation, was to have included only people with low levels of cold-virus antibodies, but Fauci argues that any information that could have been gleaned even from the smaller trial might not have proved useful. "Even pared down, the trial was too big," he says, "and was asking too many questions before we even knew if this thing worked. So I asked them to go back and give me a slimmer study that asks the question 'Does it work...
...Times reported that Light's ascension could pave the way for other directors to leave the board to make way for more indviduals with backgrounds in finance. Currently, The Times reported, none of Citigroup’s 10 directors has extensive experience on Wall Street, and just one is a former finance chief...