Word: pursuits
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...their pursuit of the good life, Michigan couple Mary and Tom Clark appear to be doing everything right. Both work--she as a middle-school teacher, he as an insurance claims adjuster--to support their two girls, ages 6 and 9. When the Clarks bought their four-bedroom house in Battle Creek six years ago, they put 20% down to get the best interest rate. They have no credit-card debt, economize every way they can--yet can't escape the feeling that they are just a pink slip away from financial disaster. "If Tom lost...
...being because more innocent deaths have occurred as a result of the attacks than I can bear to imagine. Over 3,000 of our fellow countrymen were brutally murdered. And at the very least, about 10,000 human beings were denied life and a chance at liberty and the pursuit of happiness when a war-hungry administration dragged my country into a War on Terror...
...after Saddam admitted the inspectors and Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector Hans Blix begged for more time, Bush still went for the death penalty, and our international credibility was trashed. The President proved his most ardent critics right—his stated goal of regime change and his half-hearted pursuit of a diplomatic solution were mutually exclusive...
...mindful of the regional crisis that such a move could trigger. Instead, Washington would simply ignore the elected leader of the Palestinians and deal only with the prime minister designated by the U.S. as Arafat's successor. And, so the theory went, by showing ordinary Palestinians that Abbas's pursuit of the roadmap brought progress towards statehood and an end to the occupation, Arafat would be cast into the dustbin of history by his own people...
...dismissing Jewish and Zionist claims on the land and allowing only that those Jews who lived in Palestine "before the Zionist invasion" would be allowed to remain. Although that document was later modified (in a meeting hastily convened under pressure from the Clinton White House) in keeping with the pursuit of a two-state solution under the Oslo Accords, the same sentiment remains central to the charter of Hamas, and the demand for ?liberating? all of Palestine remains a core element of Palestinian national identity. Acceptance of a two-state solution, which would give the Palestinians only 25 percent...