Word: traction
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...Senate majority leader Tom Daschle sounded a cautionary note about the ever expanding war: "Before we make commitments in resources, I think we need to have a clearer understanding of what the direction will be." His criticism was swiftly termed "divisive" and "disgusting" by Republican leaders and found little traction even with fellow Democrats. That was one measure of how the urgency of the battle against terror has overwhelmed concern about the risks...
...Milosevic's worldview, in which the Serbs are perpetual victims of the aggressions of their neighbors and of American imperial designs, is unlikely to find much traction in the West. But his arguments may resonate with many Serbs, who still believe that the Kosovo Albanians were externally-funded terrorists. Still, even among Serbs who blame the wars of the 1990s exclusively on others, there's a growing acknowledgment that Milosevic was not a passive bystander, and that he pursued criminal policies. The discovery of mass graves in Serbia last summer offered incontrovertible proof that war crimes had been committed...
...baby one more time.” “Eleven to Your Seven” is the closest Mercedes come to a genuine pop song with a decent hook, though the lyrics are not exactly upbeat: “I spent the last three months / In mental traction / Woeing all I could foresee.” In the end, Hey Mercedes are a bit like dining hall macaroni and cheese: filling, not unsatisfying, but you probably wouldn’t pay money...
...They were driving on a gravel road and lost traction,” said Justin G. Muzinich ’00, a close friend of the victims. “It was on a road where many accidents happen,” Muzinich added...
...real loss we feel at senseless death and suffering cannot be explained or understood without a God to endow value to we peculiar arrangements of molecules. Nor can our moral outrage gain any traction without a judge and executor to give justification to our preference to live rather than...