Word: reach
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...will empower the moderates. This is the issue far more than Iraq or Afghanistan - it's what allows the extremists to reach across into moderate opinion...
...learned is that you simply just don't give up. People said Northern Ireland was completely hopeless. But in the end, it wasn't. And this isn't, either. On one level, this is easier because there is an agreement among most people - and that's trying to reach a two-state solution...
...disobey. It's a good day in the Korengal when an elder slips an oblique warning that one of the observation posts might be attacked that evening. Sometimes progress is so slow it feels like a stalemate, admits company commander Captain James Howell. But, he says, "if we can reach a point where the villagers want to work with us and the Taliban are the only thing stopping them, that's success." Howell knows his company won't be able to tame the valley completely. He's not sure his successors will either. "To win this war," he says...
...distribute congressional seats and tax dollars. The most contentious issue: whether to rely on mathematical sampling in addition to old-fashioned, one-at-a-time counting to measure the country's population. Many experts say sampling yields more accurate results than an individual count, especially among those hardest to reach, such as the homeless and the poor. As a rule, though, Republicans grow queasy at seeing the words Census and sampling in the same sentence, as those hard-to-count populations generally support Democrats. A government study found that the 2000 Census missed more than 4 million people, largely...
...somewhat disappointing, but will continue to roll out promotions.Eric C. Chen ’11 is a b.good follower who was already a customer when he discovered the chain’s account. “I like the fact that this is a local restaurant trying to reach out to us,” he said, adding that he would check out future promotions.Oggi’s Welch has also run promotions, but out of 180 followers, only two came in over the course of a two-hour slot to claim their free slice of pizza with code...