Word: shadowing
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...examples of courage and heroism on one side and of manipulation and cowardice on the other. The sheer cold-heartedness required to end the lives of thousands of innocents is as close to pure evil as one can imagine. At the same time, we remember firefighters sprinting into the shadow of the World Trade Center just before the towers fell. We remember the passengers on an ill-fated flight above Pennsylvania launching a last-ditch attack to regain control of an airplane, knowing they would likely die in the process. These sublime moments are now part of the nation?...
...Bush Administration has made fumbling attempts to justify the shadow detentions. At first Ashcroft claimed that the detainees' identities were being kept secret for their own benefit--to prevent the creation of a McCarthy-style blacklist. When that explanation was widely derided, the Justice Department offered a new justification: that some of the detainees were members of "sleeper cells" and that law enforcement did not want to tell the enemy which of its agents were out of commission. "We might as well mail this list to the Osama bin Laden al-Qaeda network as to release it," Ashcroft said...
...stunning record of innovation and profit? That's up to Immelt, 45, handpicked successor to the most influential CEO ever, Jack Welch. Immelt made his name boosting the fortunes of GE's Medical Systems business, and barely three months into his new job, he is already casting a large shadow. Despite the sour global economy, a debilitating advertising slump at NBC and a serious downturn in his jet-engine business, Immelt paid $2 billion in October for Spanish-language TV network Telemundo...
...Christians, Muslims, and atheists in Leverett have to eat in the shadow of, and pay for, a “kosher dining station,” which is unquestionably an expression of religious observance. Can I assume that Shira Kieval, who feels so strongly that no student should “be forced to choose between eating and being in the same room with a religious object,” supports the removal of these stations...
...life this spirit sustains, these numbers show that it’s still difficult for some to board a 747 without images of armed hijackers, diverted travel routes and crumbling towers crossing their minds. Even several months after the fact, the attacks cast a long shadow on America’s confidence in her highways...