Word: poses
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...questions covered issues such as whether homosexuals in the military pose a threat to morale--which is the military's stated reason for the policy--and whether the members of the council who drafted the proposal researched it sufficiently beforehand...
...send their kids to private school--or to live in one of the expensive areas with a good public system--are accustomed to dealing with whites as equals. Their well-scrubbed, well-dressed, well-mannered offspring blend right in with the well-scrubbed, well-mannered white children and pose no perceived threat...
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen in his book Hitler's Willing Executioners [BOOKS, April 1] asks a question that Germans of the younger generation have long wanted to pose to their parents and grandparents: What did they know, and what did they do? One thing is certain: there are no simple answers. The Holocaust plot involved fanaticized henchmen as well as sadistic executioners, opportunistic collaborators and people who heard rumors they would or would not believe in the context of raging war and burning cities. After all, the regime went to extraordinary lengths to disguise what was going on, apparently afraid...
...much in the way of knowledge, jobs, wealth and space-invader games over its brief history, but it was an honor I didn't deserve. There are computer scientists far more distinguished than I, and to tell the truth, I don't even like computers very much. They pose technical problems that are deep and engrossing, but when there is playing to be done, I'd much rather play with my young boys or my wife. I will make time to untangle the minor problems the boys' computer is prone to only when I am up against a wall...
EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES MAY POSE A health risk and reduce sperm count. Nowhere are the genetic consequences of such exposure more readily seen than in the post-Vietnam War era and, more recently, in the progeny of Gulf War veterans. Only the naive may find comfort in thoughts of a golden future; the decline of man has already begun. PETER HARDING Nullamanna, Australia...