Word: rife
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Maybe he thought voters would still believe that Iraq is rife with WMDs just waiting to be found. As he said in the press conference, “See, I happen to believe that we’ll find out the truth on the weapons…They could be hidden like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm [in Libya].” Of course, as a sheepish White House spokesperson Scott McClellan revealed later, there were actually 23.6 tons of mustard gas, and they were not buried in a turkey farm. Former top U.S. weapons...
Maybe he thought voters would still believe that Iraq is rife with WMDs just waiting to be found. As he said in the press conference, “See, I happen to believe that we’ll find out the truth on the weapons…They could be hidden like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm [in Libya].” Of course, as a sheepish White House Spokesman Scott McClellan revealed later, there were actually 23.6 tons of mustard gas, and they were not buried in a turkey farm. Former top U.S. weapons...
...fair, logrolling and special interest politics are nothing new—just about every major field of controversial political thought from health care to gun control is rife with controversy about expensive dinner parties and well-concealed rider bills. And most experts suggest that the solution to these problems is to call for more effective campaign finance reform. Still, the incremental and largely specialized changes to the copyright code have left it warped and on the verge of breaking. To apply it in any practical sense requires the consultation of obscure and confusingly-worded exceptions designed only with the protection...
...which previously failed to connect with the majority of Shi'ites, now strikes a chord. A year after the war began, their tolerance is exhausted. The lower rungs of society are fed up with the slow pace of reconstruction and unkept U.S. promises of a better life. Suspicion is rife that America's murky plans for a political transition on June 30 will somehow thwart Shi'ite claims to a rightful share of power. On the streets in the Khadamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, al-Sadr's outspoken defiance made quiescent Shi'ites feel good. Militia guarding a Shi'ite shrine...
...seems that the term “civil marriage” is something of an oxymoron to begin with. That word “marriage”—so rife and saturated with religious connotation and emotion, “civil” or not—is on the large part the thing that is preventing people from extending the civil rights contained therein to their fellow citizens, despite the fact that such an ecclesiastical term has no place in a government that values a separation of church and state. For the traditional definitions of religion...