Word: stridently
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Line of Control into their unofficial temporary border. What's needed now are cool heads, compromise and logic, especially considering that India and Pakistan are the world's newest nuclear powers. Kashmir's own people are demanding to be heard, and many of their voices are far less strident than in the past. "We have to forget the bitter yesterday and find a permanent solution. We can no longer afford to live in tension," says Abdul Ghani Bhat, the chairman of the Hurriyat Conference. "There is no alternative other than talking, talking, talking." Other voices are still obstinate. "Dialogue delivers...
...That they do. The Whitewater investigation, which begat the Paula Jones case, which begat Monica, who begat the first U.S. impeachment in a century and just about everything else that's shrill, strident and entertaining about politics these days, is all done, and Bush will come back to office with one less hot potato. As Siewert said in his own words, the deal effectively means the end of the OIC's work "without the filing of any criminal charges, the obtaining of any plea or the acknowledgment of any criminal conduct...
...skates hanging next to the cooking utensils relate to the play's finale when the family reunited plans to go skating as they used to before Tom's lapse into alcoholism. The disabilities that affect the family are also made visible in the kitchen walls, which are painted a strident yellow and stenciled with bunches of grapes. The alternation between light and dark is smooth, saving the spotlight for a great performance by the cast of Escape from Happiness...
...that support is inspired less by Gore himself than by the fact that they're Democrats, and with 2002 on the line they'll do whatever the base says, and the base says Gore won. (Bob Kerrey's strident appearances in Florida for Gore's cause are widely credited to his own presidential ambitions in 2004 should Gore come up short.) And because the Republicans, from the orchestrated Miami-Dade "mob" to Gephardt nemesis Tom DeLay, have really been pissing them...
...starboard side of his own party. After the lawyers get through picking over the Florida tally as if it were a suit against Big Tobacco, conservatives will have a purchase on the White House. They already own talk radio. In Fox News, they have their own strident TV news network. And on the point-counterpoint shows, they speak with a vigor their so-called liberal (but really moderate) opponents are too decorous or slow-witted to even try to match. Liberal media? What liberal media? The Nation and the shattered remnants of the Pacifica radio network...