Word: splits
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...evidence of the excerpts, the Unabomber is a rather bland but careful writer, fastidious about his grammar; "to be able personally to influence" is his somewhat labored way of avoiding a split infinitive. In another passage, lambasting white liberals who champion black culture, he writes, "But in what does this preservation of African-American culture consist? It can hardly consist in anything more than eating black-style food...
...nearly party-line split, the Senate voted 52 to 48 to back the decision of the Senate Ethics Committee not to hold public hearings in the sexual and official misconduct case of Finance Committee chairman Bob Packwood. Democrat Barbara Boxer, who had pushed for open hearings, called the decision "a miscarriage of justice." At week's end the committee announced that two more complaints of sexual misconduct had surfaced against Packwood and that it would investigate the new charges...
...been since May, this six-member Supreme Council remained split down the middle on the questions of whether and how to end the war. One faction of three, headed by Prime Minister Suzuki and joined by Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo and Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yonai, favored negotiating for peace on the most favorable terms still remaining; the other, led by War Minister Anami, argued that defeat and death would be more honorable than surrender and occupation and that Japan had no choice but to fight on. The debate continued in a Cabinet meeting that ran more than eight hours...
...hard to believe that you have produced something as ruthlessly uninformative as this article. Descartes was wrong about the mind/body split? Consciousness is not centered in one specific part of the brain? All the main points of the article have been common knowledge for quite some time. STEVEN ZANI Binghamton, New York Via E-Mail
Absent from the tennis scene since a crazed fan stabbed her in 1993, Monica Seles will return with a share of the world's No. 1 ranking, the Women's Tennis Association said on Thursday. Seles will split the top spot with Steffi Graf for at least the first six tournaments that she plays; Graf will be top-seeded at the upcoming U.S. Open for tournament-draw purposes...