Word: spokenness
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...Creative negotiators during 2000 thought the issue could be finessed. Israel could recognize the right in principle, while the Palestinians mulled over a proposal that, as a practical matter, most of the refugees could go back only as far as the new Palestine. Arafat has spoken of "understanding" that any return of refugees "must be implemented in a way that takes into account" Israel's unshakable determination to remain Jewish. But Sharon's Likud Party has rejected the return of any Palestinian refugees, from anywhere. And Arafat can't guarantee those 1,235,000 camp refugees will accept that they...
...cheapen with empty symbols of effortless advocacy. Ribbons should be earned. If distributed at all, they should be at the group’s events, where audience members, by virtue of showing up, have shown that they appreciate the feeling that is behind it. And after the survivors have spoken and shared their pent-up emotions, and after we, the flier-tossers, have listened, maybe then the ribbons will mean something...
...member of the Agassiz Neighborhood Council (ANC), Goldberg is a very well-spoken woman. She speaks with all the precision and diplomacy of her profession (she’s a school psychologist...
...would be an understatement, then, to say the Secretary of State has very little to work with. But his calm, forceful demeanor, plain-spoken realism and determination to intervene against the odds suggests that his pessimism of the intellect is combined with a boundless optimism of the will...
Parker and the Quincy F crew have not spoken since the initial e-mail. “We were going to address him, but then we thought, why offend anyone? Everyone is entitled to their opinions,” Kim says...