Word: pursuits
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...officials say the harsh rhetoric last week was mainly intended to get Assad's attention, as were hints that the U.S. might authorize its troops in Iraq to conduct "hot pursuit" of insurgents across the border into Syria. The U.S. teamed up with France, long an influence in Lebanon, last fall to push through a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for all "foreign forces"--meaning Syria--to quit Lebanon. Damascus ignored it. French President Jacques Chirac, a personal friend of Hariri's, consoled the family in Beirut last week and may be more inclined to put real muscle behind...
...feel that way. Before Deadwood, TV westerns had been out of fashion. But the story of the bloody pursuit of riches and the emergence of law in a South Dakota gold-prospecting outpost turned into a respectable...
...didn't specify what those opportunities are. But they can be summed up in four words: the pursuit of happiness. These words describe much more than an individual or collective aspiration. They describe an ideology, a distinctively American attempt to give meaning to life. But people from older, traditional societies cannot be blamed for finding it a bit strange. For happiness seems something very private in the U.S., best pursued by what Bush prescribed as a patriotic duty immediately after 9/11: shopping...
...restructurings of society familiar to us in our own times: revolution, socialism, democracy, capitalism or regime change. He insisted that suffering is a mental experience, born from desire, attachment, hatred, pride and envy. These were the "negative emotions" that distort and confuse the mind and lead it into a pursuit of such goals as power, possessions and sensuous pleasures. When thwarted, they lead to frustration and suffering; and even when fulfilled, they can only turn into another source of unhappiness, for the happiness they bring is always fleeting...
...certainly not the former. Made up to look like that guy’s basement where you used to drink PBR throughout high school, the rooms at One House are sprinkled with foosball tables, a comfy couch, TV, a pool table, and stacks of board games, including Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, and—for the really wild—Parcheesi...