Word: traction
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...doesn't have the SECRET stamp on it, it really isn't treated very seriously," says Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit. The idea of an open-source unit didn't gain traction until a White House commission recommended creating one last spring. Utilizing it will require "cultural and attitudinal changes," says the senior DNI official. Sure, watching TV and listening to the radio may not sound terribly sexy, but, says Scheuer, "there's no better way to find out what Osama bin Laden's going to do than to read what he says...
...foremost, it derails Washington's protectionists and the serious threat they pose to geopolitical stability. Admittedly, a 2.1% revaluation of the renminbi stops well short of the 27.5% adjustment proposed by several U.S. Senators. Their bill, which would impose damaging tariffs on Chinese imports, had garnered surprising bipartisan traction in Congress and could well have been passed by the upper chamber later this year. The China bashers certainly did not get anything close to what they were seeking, but the wind is now out of their sails. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow's statement that he welcomes the currency shift...
...taking things too seriously, Linklater is able to get a lot done. He has about 10 films he has started working on, patiently waiting for them to get traction with studios, investors or actors. There's an adaptation of the nonfiction book Fast Food Nation, an Owen Wilson and Natalie Portman movie called The Smoker (about parents who try to hook their daughter up with her high school teacher) and a football movie he started shooting but lost financing...
...first stories appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette. They gained traction thanks to a July 2004 memo by a Yale Divinity School team that advised academy chaplains on rape counseling but made note of "stridently evangelical themes" in Protestant services and warned that this could "encourage religious divisions." The letter was co-signed by Captain MeLinda Morton, a Lutheran chaplain at the academy. She has been reassigned to Okinawa--punishment, she claims, for speaking out, although the Air Force denies it. She has questioned the influence on the school of the many powerful Christian groups headquartered in Colorado Springs, sometimes...
...tons of radioactive waste being stored primarily at the same plants that produced it. The Energy Department's long-delayed plan to open an underground-storage facility in Nevada remains stalled by lawsuits and local resistance, and no alternative long-term solution has yet gained much traction. Critics say that is reason enough for the nuclear industry to be buried once and for all rather than resurrected. --By Daniel Eisenberg and Eric Roston