Word: porousness
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...want to be good. We want to be bad. Between these sides of ourselves, we construct the wall of the state, which is porous, since it's made of ourselves (see Bill Clinton). Assuming that you're in favor of justice, anything that makes it stronger is good news, right? We have good news...
...want to be good. We want to be bad. Between these sides of ourselves, we construct the wall of the state, which is porous, since it's made of ourselves (see Bill Clinton). Assuming that you're in favor of justice, anything that makes it stronger is good news, right? We have good news...
...Aside from the hijacking, of course, the struggle for control in Chechnya continues. Checkpoints in Chechnya and the territory's borders are pretty porous, and guerrillas appear to be able to move around. The hardest thing to be right now is an ordinary Chechen without work or shelter. If you're a guerrilla fighter, chances are you're a lot better fed, clothed and funded than your civilian counterpart. And you're probably a lot more confident about the future...
...OPEC producers. The problem is getting the oil out of the ground and to market. Years of Soviet mismanagement and underinvestment have taken their toll. Russia's oil fields are in dire need of rehabilitation; Sakhalin's north and much of Siberia are littered with rusting derricks ringed by porous labyrinths of old pipelines. Local environmentalists, pointing to the recent spill near the Galapagos Islands, worry about the potential damage to Sakhalin's rich ecosystem caused by toxic drilling waste...
...Huskies trailed the whole game, but took advantage of a porous Harvard defense that would let it roam free in the slot unmarked and go fishing for pucks in front of senior goalie Oli Jonas at will. Aside from the dramatic final goal, almost all of Northeastern's offense came in discrete, two-goal clusters. The Huskies scored a pair 30 seconds apart in the first, 47 seconds apart in the second and the score went from 7-5 to 7-7 on a duet separated by just 27 ticks in the third...