Word: suppressing
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...fallen out with the rebels over their armed activities, but says the single battalion of Australian troops hunting them are wasting their time. "There are the hills, the mountains, caves, rivers to hide in. Indonesia had 18 battalions in Timor," he says, referring to the time Jakarta tried to suppress the Timorese independence movement, "and they never succeeded against the guerrillas in the forest." And, he says, the rebels enjoy popular support. "The local people will not tell them where they are hiding...
...Oscar failed it. At the top of nearly every critics' poll as the best film of all time, Orson Welles' debut movie was praised to the skies when it opened in 1941. But the resemblance of Charles Foster Kane to publisher William Randolph Hearst cued a campaign to suppress the movie, and Kane flopped in its initial release. In addition, many in the industry rankled at Welles' boy-genius rep and may have resented the freedom this first-timer was given by his studio, RKO. Under these circumstances, it's probably a miracle that the film received nine Oscar nominations...
...experiments, Haselton finds evidence for love as an adaptation. She and her colleagues have people think about how much they love someone and then try to suppress thoughts of other attractive people. They then have the same people think about how much they sexually desire those same partners and then try again to suppress thoughts about others. It turns out that love does a much better job of pushing out those rivals than sex does. Haselton argues that this effect is exactly what you'd expect if sex was a drive to reproduce and love was a drive to form...
...passion. The late GOP strategic wizard Lee Atwater designed the thing to give conservative Southerners a say in the presidential process and offer churchgoers a power line to the White House. Then he scheduled it right after Iowa and New Hampshire, the ideal spot for the party establishment to suppress an insurgent candidate's momentum...
...getting? Well, they were just here! As late at 7 p.m. on election night, Jim MacEachern, Romney's Perry Township chair, was predicting a victory. "We've got 'em," he said, referring to the mobbed polling place he spoke from. (Meanwhile, at the McCain headquarters, aides were trying to suppress grins and quietly showing each other exit polls on their BlackBerrys, shading them with their hands so we mere mortals couldn...