Word: realm
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...goes well beyond the U.S. attorneys controversy and details other alleged failings by Gonzales. "Mr. Gonzales has presided over an unprecedented crippling of the Constitution's time-honored checks and balances," it declares. "He has brought rule of law into disrepute, and debased honesty as the coin of the realm." Alluding to ongoing scandal, it notes: "He has engendered the suspicion that partisan politics trumps evenhanded law enforcement in the Department of Justice...
...mind black-and-white cartoons, and the vocal lines evoke the girls of the Broadway musical “Chicago.” Here, Gray’s sense of humor comes out to play. “Ghetto Love” falls too far into the modern realm and away from Gray’s own style, as evidenced by the title alone. The track sounds too derivative, but who knows—maybe that will make it an audience favorite. “Treat Me Like Your Money” (this time featuring will.i.am...
...have a comment on Senator John Edwards, "but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot." Coulter is only the most egregious example - from Bill O'Reilly on Fox to Glenn Beck on CNN, offense is the coin of the cable realm...
...change is the very definition of a global problem - its causes and effects cross all national boundaries, and so must its remedies. But if human activity in burning fossil fuels is the cause of global warming, as the consensus now holds, then human activity in the political and diplomatic realm may also prove be the greatest obstacle to an effective global response to the problem. That much was clear in Brussels on Friday in the struggles over the latest report of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC...
...risk of extinction if global temperatures rise in line with median projections, while by 2080, many millions of people living along coastlines will face an annual flood risk. As Camille Parmesan, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas, put it, "We're going into a realm the world has not seen for a very long time...