Word: reared
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...principal expression of his conflict with Israel over the Golan Heights was the space and support he gave to Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon; while Syria's conflict with Turkey over water resources led him to allow the Kurdish guerrillas of Abdullah Ocalan's PKK to make their rear base in Syrian-controlled Lebanon...
...response. Is either side making any significant concessions? Nope. Will an extra week of crossfire do anything to change the judge's apparent desire to cleave the company? Nope. But like a long black robe, the delay may go some way toward covering a certain jurist's rear...
...Congress and the presidential candidates fret over the high prices of prescriptions, the drug companies have been launching rear-guard actions in the states to protect their profits. Florida is one of about 30 states in which makers of brand-name drugs, often led by DuPont, have pushed to limit patient access to some generic versions. At times the generic companies have pushed back and won. In 1998 Minnesota gave its consumers access to all the cheaper substitutes approved...
...obsessed sisters or a menagerie of squabbling relatives. The beleaguered breadwinner in Sea Oak works as a male stripper at Joysticks, a club with an aviation motif, and notes of his lodgings, "At Sea Oak there's no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear view of FedEx...
...supposed to get loose of us. That's why nature created those powerful hormones that make them glare at us and slam doors. Nature isn't interested in privacy or diversity, only survival, and it wants children to escape our clutches so that they can grow up and rear their own children and continue the species and come back in a few years and place us in assisted living...