Word: swifts
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...drug benefit to Medicare; it condemned the Abu Ghraib abuses yet didn’t see fit to fire anyone behind it; and it took no measures to distance itself from the sensational and false accusations about Sen. Kerry’s war record leveled by the disingenuously-named Swift Boat Veterans for Truth...
...Bush. Even before he assumed office, Bush declared his willingness to use the U.S.'s military supremacy to deter enemies. "Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation," he said in 1999. "They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment." Bush's faith in military force became the guiding tenet of his presidency after 9/11. "He determined on that day that you could not fight this war just on defense," Rice says. "It's an unfair fight when they have to be right once and you have to be right...
Then, with only a minute left in the contest, the Crimson launched a swift counter-attack to win itself yet another decisive penalty corner. Maasdorp’s team-leading 15th goal of the season, again assisted by McDavitt and Gannon, iced the win with 29 seconds remaining...
...same time, Sistani has forced the U.S. to abandon many of its designs for Iraq's future. When Washington laid out a lengthy timetable for returning Iraq to self-rule, Sistani's objections forced the Bush Administration to deliver a swift handover instead. He has been uncompromising in his call for prompt elections and in his determination that Iraqis write their own constitution. When the U.S. proposed a complex caucus system for voting, Sistani responded by putting 100,000 peaceful demonstrators into the streets to support his call for national one-man, one-vote elections by January 2005. With...
Most importantly, what is appropriate is defined by Kummer’s arbitrary tastes and preferences.“The LP is definitely capricious, and the LP metes swift, wet and sweet justice, but that doesn’t mean it has to make sense,” said Kummer. “It’s a position that’s rather whimsical and rightfully...