Word: swamp
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Comparing the opportunity for a “campus that is several times as large as this Yard” to the planning that turned a swamp into the Harvard Business School and a train yard into the Kennedy School of Government, Summers stressed the importance that Allston holds to the University...
...future. Remaking Afghanistan may yet turn out to be the mother of all "nation-building" exercises - a form of intervention that sends chills through Washington's national security circles. But as complex and daunting as the challenge may be, it may also be an unavoidable aspect of "draining the swamp" that has nurtured Al Qaida's global terrorist enterprise...
...what comes next. It's hard to plan D-day against an enemy with no beaches and no borders, and when wise heads counsel that the most effective counterattack may be the least publicly satisfying kind--the quiet intelligence and financial and psychological warfare that can best "drain the swamp" where the terrorists hide. Would a large-scale attack demonstrate American resolve or play into the hands of those hoping to create a martyr? "Not only do you need the courage of your convictions," Adlai Stevenson once said. "Sometimes you need the courage of your doubts...
...what comes next. It's hard to plan D-day against an enemy with no beaches and no borders, and when wise heads counsel that the most effective counterattack may be the least publicly satisfying kind - the quiet intelligence and financial and psychological warfare that can best "drain the swamp" where the terrorists hide. Would a large-scale attack demonstrate American resolve or play into the hands of those hoping to create a martyr? "Not only do you need the courage of your convictions," Adlai Stevenson once said. "Sometimes you need the courage of your doubts...
...Assume that America?s recent run of easy conquests continues - and it won?t be long at all before Tom Ridge sinks quietly into a swamp of bureaucracy, the recession is over and the economy is back and more robust than ever. Our fundamentals remain strong and our consumers have short memories and long habits. We have a capable Fed and a White House that seems to understand that picking winners and losers is not something the government is known for doing well...