Word: robustness
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...Maybe that happened Tuesday; maybe Wednesday was the breather. And maybe Thursday, a steadily robust rally from the opening bell to the closing one (even if volume wasn't as high as some analysts wanted to see), was the beginning of a long-awaited turnaround. Heck, maybe a year from now you'll be kicking yourself for not buying Lucent on Wednesday when bankruptcy rumors knocked that stock down to what, five bucks...
...reject not only the Clinton concept of a "strategic partnership" with China but also the mainstream Republican policy of trade-based engagement to encourage reforms. They think the communist regime should be contained and confronted, much as the Soviet Union was treated, and that Taiwan's democracy should receive robust military support...
...brain, however--or at least the oldest parts of it--may have been. One of the things that helped early humans survive was a robust fear-and-flight response: an innate sense of the places and things that represent danger and a reflexive impulse to hightail it when one of them is encountered. When the species became top predator a few million years later, those early lessons were not easy to unlearn...
...Best of all, the enzyme-deprived mice were in robust health, producing baby mice with no problem and generally acting like any other mouse. That's great news for obesity researchers, who speculate that scientists may figure out a way to inhibit the fat-metabolizing enzyme in humans and control weight gain. And such a pill would be nothing short of a miracle for many struggling to shed dangerous excess pounds...
...Israeli teenagers on the border between Israel and the West Bank. The latest attacks followed two bomb blasts in Jerusalem the previous day for which Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility, and ongoing clashes throughout the West Bank. The Israeli attacks came as no surprise - Israel had promised a robust military retaliation, but had waited for the conclusion of the Arab League summit (which wrapped up Wednesday in Jordan) to minimize the diplomatic fallout...