Word: sentimentals
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...while Tokyo seems sincere about not going nuclear now--the antinuclear sentiment in that country, for obvious reasons, runs strong and deep--there are limits to how secure Japan may come to feel under the U.S. nuclear umbrella. If North Korea proves capable of putting a nuclear warhead on a missile that can reach the U.S.--it already has short-range missiles capable of reaching Tokyo--the strategic game changes. If North Korea could nuke Japan, or blackmail it, while credibly threatening to strike the U.S. with a nuclear warhead, would Japanese officials truly believe the U.S. would retaliate against...
...freeze Ecuador's foreign debt payments and says the country's economy should not "indefinitely" remain dollarized. (Ecuador switched its currency to the dollar in 2000.) Says Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank in Washington, D.C., "The U.S., especially the very strong anti-U.S. sentiment among many Ecuadorans today, is perhaps the most important issue in this election...
...undergraduates’ anti-UC sentiment seems to have hardly dampened, and many students have already called for the UC fee to be partially refunded. For some, it is a matter of deception: the 2004 fee hike was presented as a way to fund more student groups and more campus-wide events organized by the CLC. With CLC dissolved, they argue that the UC neither needs nor has a right to the money. For others, any UC fee is absurd: students should choose themselves which student groups receive their $75 and leave SAC to haggle with Dean of the College...
...Mollohan's staff explains his opposition to the gay-marriage amendment as rooted in respect for state's rights and a belief that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act makes a constitutional amendment unnecessary. If there is a sentiment that Mollohan is out of step with the district, it's not a widely shared one, said another longtime political observer in Morgantown, associate professor Neil Berch of WVU. Mollohan, who was elected in 1982 to succeed his father in Congress, is a good fit for the district: he is generally conservative on social issues and liberal with the federal purse...
...asked how good his team potentially could be.“Well, it’s a good question,” Murphy admitted. “Personally, right now I think we have a lot of areas we need to improve.” He echoed this sentiment at least four separate times after Saturday’s game.“We need to be a better finishing team,” Murphy said. “We need to improve our pass defense, we need to improve our consistency. Right now I think we have...