Word: pursuitence
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...George Bush's foreign policy. He would laugh at the latest joke about a priest and a rabbi or about a farmer's daughter. We would admire both his earnestness and his self-aware irony. And we would relate to the way he tried to balance, sometimes uneasily, a pursuit of reputation, wealth, earthly virtues and spiritual values...
...force against the militants for fear of starting a Palestinian civil war he would likely lose. Instead, the PA hopes to draw these groups into a unified national Palestinian leadership, coopting their fighters into the PA security services and giving their political leaders a stake in the pursuit of Palestinian statehood along the lines envisaged in the roadmap. The idea of Abbas making common cause with an organization that currently rejects Israel's right to exist and which pioneered suicide bombing as a political tactic deepens Israeli anxiety over just where the roadmap is leading. But Abbas is dealing with...
...that sellers wouldn't care who buys their cars, as long as the money is green. But automakers worry about it a lot. They think it's essential to lure buyers as early as possible, so that they will develop a brand loyalty that might last a lifetime. That pursuit is one of the most maddening in the car business--but carmakers are chasing the young with a fervor not seen since the '70s. Toyota has just launched Scion, a new car brand aimed at recent college grads who want an affordable, functional vehicle (with body styling...
...course, if there is one asset the clubs are all chasing now, it is the local member. An Asian-white ratio of 90 to 10 is no longer seen as unspeakable decline but economic salvation. In pursuit of this, the clubs have undergone strenuous reinvention, espousing "multiculturalism" and downplaying Anglo connections like any lefty nongovernmental organization...
...convicted of spying and spent a combined 14 years in jail before being released in 1998, is just one of thousands of South Koreans who ran afoul of the country's National Intelligence Service (NIS). Founded in 1961, the agency was infamous during the cold war for its ruthless pursuit of enemies?real and perceived?of the country's right-wing, authoritarian leaders. As South Korea has evolved into a progressive democracy, however, the agency's vicious methods and anticommunist agenda have increasingly become an outdated national embarrassment. Now, the reform-minded administration of South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun...