Word: preempted
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...Apologies are powerful. They are disarming. I would even counsel using them in a Machiavellian way. We must all stoop to conquer sometimes. Moreover, apologies preempt further animosity by palliating the aggrieved. What's so terrible about that...
Military men, like nature, hate a vacuum. And that's why Peruvians are keeping a wary eye on the barracks following Monday's announcement that President Alberto Fujimori has resigned. The president, on an unscheduled visit to his ancestral homeland, Japan, announced his retirement to preempt congressional moves to oust him. But that may have only deepened the political crisis triggered two months ago by the release of videos showing Fujimori's top aide, intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing a member of congress. Fujimori has indicated he has no immediate plans to return to Peru from Japan...
...treading on dangerous turf when one is a "Resident Alien" (the pleasant INS euphemism for "foreigner") and dares to critique any aspect of Americana. So let me preempt my words by saying how much I love America. If I didn't genuinely love this country and its many magnificent qualities, I wouldn't be here...
...caretakers of modern campaign teams do all that they can to preempt these sorts of blunders by carefully anticipating and avoiding unfavorable situations...
...massacre this week of 90 Indian pilgrims in Kashmir may prove to be more of a headache for Pakistan's General Parvez Musharraf than for India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Tuesday's killings are believed to be the work of Kashmiri separatist guerrillas aiming to preempt historic peace talks between the largest separatist organization, Hizbul Mujahideen, and the Indian government. Pakistan hosts and sponsors all of the separatist groups fighting to end Indian rule in the disputed, predominantly Muslim territory and unite with Pakistan. But General Musharraf, under pressure from the West to ease tensions with India...