Word: safely
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...awkward, bizarre, generally stupid, embarrassing, and all manner of party foul behavior. Let’s look at some examples.Taking off your shirt on the dance floor is pretty dumb (haven’t you seen As It Were?), but not exactly sketchy, so it’s pretty safe even if everyone knows you, like at your best friend’s birthday party. Going bottom-naked, however, is ill-advised unless you are at a concert out-of-state. The sketchy denominator of the Non-Sketchy ratio is just too high.Even a dance floor make out, DFMO...
Taking off your shirt on the dance floor is pretty dumb (haven’t you seen As It Were?), but not exactly sketchy, so it’s pretty safe even if everyone knows you, like at your best friend’s birthday party. Going bottom-naked, however, is ill-advised unless you are at a concert out-of-state. The sketchy denominator of the Non-Sketchy ratio is just too high...
...fall of the Taliban. Repaved in 2003, the 300-mile highway is now pocked with craters from roadside bombs. Travelers face three or four Taliban checkpoints along the way. A Western businessman says his trucking firm pays a local commander from $5,000 to $6,000 for the safe passage of each fuel tanker along the highway, a sum which he suspects the Taliban get a share of. He also claims that in order to ship fuel from Kandahar to a Dutch base at Tirin Kot, the firm hired a local tribal mafioso who boasted of having a strong militia...
...thinks many will just put their money in the bank. The trade-off there is a measly return: the highest savings-account rate in the land is currently just 1.83%, according to Bankrate.com and most banks pay far less. Less than inflation. But hey, at least the money's safe...
...August, President Obama laid out the rationale for stepping up the fight in Afghanistan: If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al-Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is fundamental to the defense of our people. Obamas Af-Pak plan is, in essence, a countersanctuary strategy that denies safe havens to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, with the overriding goal of making America and its allies safer. Under Obama, the Pentagon has already sent a surge of 21,000 troops...