Word: trait
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...display of support for the regime. "He took great personal pride in having choreographed a lot of it," she recalls. Albright concluded that Kim saw himself as a director of a great drama, someone with a flair if not a weakness for the big show. Certainly that is a trait on display now. --With reporting by Kim Yooseung/Seoul and Michael Duffy/Washington
...Factors:: Veterans Stadium turf vs. Michael Vick. The possibilities for injury are too tragic to think about. Both of these defenses are masters at creating turnovers, a trait that can turn momentum in any game...
...fashion label "liberal." In October, Wellstone was one of 23 Senators to vote against the resolution to authorize using force against Iraq. His righteous indignation and occasionally long-winded speeches could grate, but he won respect and personal affection on both sides of the aisle for that rare trait in Washington: staying true to himself, no matter the political risk...
...only were the seniors stylish, they were also socially well-adjusted, a trait prominently in evidence as the group arrived at the restaurant. The seniors quickly integrated themselves all around the long dinner table and began conversing while FM staff members swarmed to the table’s farthest corner, their clannish impulses but momentarily eclipsing their duty to cover the event itself...
...ongoing struggle between liberal and conservative factions on the issue, and some predict it will eventually lead to an official split in the latter organization. It is time for Christian officials in this country to grow up on this issue. Anyone who accepts homosexuality as an inherent trait (as all serious and responsible science suggests) must also recognize the injustice of chastising people for homosexuality. Although scientifically indefensible, conservative Christian claims that homosexuality is “curable” present the only logically coherent answer to such objections...