Word: swallower
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...platform. Democrats declare for the first time their commitment to supporting policies - including contraception, education and economic support for pregnant women who want to carry their babies to term - that get at the root causes of abortion. To make this shift easier for abortion-rights advocates to swallow, Dems have beefed up the party's full-throated support of the Roe v. Wade decision. The negotiations seem to have paid off - the abortion plank has been hailed by both pro-life and pro-choice Democrats as an important step forward...
...Russia's litany of indignities dates to the early 1990s when the Soviet empire collapsed. A bipolar universe gave way to a world in which the "sole superpower" boasted about how it had "won" the Cold War. Russia was forced to swallow the news that NATO would grant membership to former client states in Eastern Europe, along with former Soviet republics. Russia, the fallen empire, would have to content itself with membership in the largely symbolic Partnership for Peace...
...heard that the foreign athletes will have vegetables cultivated especially for them, which were not irrigated with water, but with milk or soy milk," his wife answers. Zhao chokes. He cannot swallow the rice in his mouth. The five rings of the Olympic logo, he says, feel like five loops that yoke his neck...
...north. Former U.S. Ambassador John Gavin reportedly urged American bankers to withhold loans from Mexico until the country began to show signs of serious / economic reform. The Administration firmly maintains that Mexico cannot simply make domestic cuts, as it did during its debt crisis in 1982, but must swallow its pride and open itself up to more free trade and foreign investment. Said Senator Phil Gramm, chairman of the U.S.-Mexico Inter-Parliamentary Committee, last week: ''If they do what needs to be done, they won't need our help. If they don't, there isn't enough money...
...blue, John and Cindy were invited to a private dinner in the residence with George and Laura. It lasted all of an hour. When Congress passed the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform bill in early 2002, the legislation and its chief sponsor were so popular that Bush chose to swallow hard and sign it. According to a former White House official who was involved in the discussion, the President rejected the idea of holding a public signing ceremony. "He didn't want to give McCain the satisfaction," says the former official. McCain was informed in a telephone call from...