Word: pursuits
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...Musharraf's government has long maintained that U.S. troops would not be allowed to conduct operations on Pakistani soil. Last month the President said in an interview with Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times that U.S. troops would be considered "invaders" if they crossed the border in the pursuit of al-Qaeda militants. However, similar Predator drone attacks in the area seem to indicate a certain level of cooperation between Pakistani and U.S. intelligence. In January of 2006, a botched American air strike in the town of Damadola, meant to take out al-Qaeda number two Ayman al Zawahiri, killed...
...Obama tells it, he was at an event in tiny Greenwood County, S.C., last year, having driven hours out of his way through the rain in pursuit of an endorsement from a state representative, when someone started leading the group in a cheer. "I turn back. There's this little lady standing there," he recalled in Aiken, S.C., not long ago. "She got a big hat. And she's smiling at me. She says, 'Fired up! Ready to go!' And it turns out that this young lady's name is Edith Childs, and she's a councilwoman from Greenwood...
...reach the social incubator of elementary school. Nowhere near sexually mature, they nonetheless become sexually active--in their own fashion. The opposite-sex teasing and chasing that are rife on playgrounds may give teachers headaches, but they teach boys and girls a lot. The games, after all, are about pursuit and emotional arousal, two critical elements of sex. "There are a lot of erotic forms of play," says Barrie Thorne, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Gender Play: Boys and Girls in School. "It can be titillating, and it may involve sexual meaning...
...state. But being a lifelong man of study and reflection, Benedict also sees the source for much of the conflict in how ideas germinate and spread on university campuses. Biographers say his experience as a professor during the student upheavals of the late 1960s - where he believed a godless pursuit of personal freedom was spiraling out of control - helped shape his view of contemporary secular culture and the current state of academia...
...that excess oil exports also impede democratization. Tom Friedman of the New York Times even argues that democratization and the price of oil move in inverse proportion: when the price of oil goes up, he argues, crackdowns on political freedom ensue. Much academic ink has been spilled in pursuit of a model that can accurately link oil wealth and lack of freedom...