Word: suspender
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Claims made in editorials are only convincing as far as they are credible. To expect readers to make broad leaps of faith or to suspend judgement, even when reading the opinion page, is asking too much and usually offering too little in return...
...family lore. Sea birds, seal, the wind, and the sea itself become animate, trying to effect the actions of the humans. Cinematographer Haskell Wexler brings a lyrical, dream-like beauty to this searavaged coast. The haunting soundtrack is like the tune of the Pied Piper, luring the audience to suspend disbelief and accept this far-fetched tale...
...religious bias that has brought administrators at Boston University to expel it from campus, those at MIT to suspend its activities, and numerous other Boston schools to prohibit it from acting on campus. Administrators, including Epps, are wary of the BCC's use of deception, harassment, and mind control techniques to coerce vulnerable students...
...buttonholes his way to political profit. In the last Congress Gingrich introduced three bills to suspend duties on drug ingredients imported by Solvay Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of a large Belgian company based in his Georgia district. In January 1994 Solvay contributed $30,000 to the foundation. In mid-1994, Gingrich pressed the FDA to speed the approval of a drug manufactured by Solvay. Last September Gingrich lobbied the White House and the FDA on behalf of Direct Access Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that was seeking approval for a home test kit to detect the AIDS virus. Soon after, Direct...
...part, Rabin pleaded with Israelis in a televised address not to give in to ``moments of weakness.'' But a poll in the daily Ma'ariv showed that while 37% of Israeli Jews are willing to proceed with the peace process, 50% want to suspend it--the highest negative ratings so far. The Prime Minister could not accede to their wish. ``We are heavily invested in this process,'' explained government spokesman Uri Dromi...