Word: treaded
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...agree. For solving the problems of suborbital flight and re-entry with ingenious design, for boldly going where NASA now fears to tread and returning without a scratch, but most of all for reigniting the moon-shot-era dream of zero-gravity for everyone, SpaceShipOne is TIME's Coolest Invention...
...Russian firms are stepping in where foreign companies find it harder to tread. Foremost among them is the giant Gazprom, whose gas reserves were recently valued at $78 billion and which is actively pushing to become a big player in the oil market. It is merging with Russia's seventh largest oil company, state-owned Rosneft, and Alexei Miller, Gazprom's chief executive, has signaled his interest in another oil producer, Zarubezhneft. Most dramatically, Gazprom has emerged as the best-positioned candidate to acquire Yugansk...
...Russian firms are stepping in where foreign companies find it harder to tread. Foremost among them is the giant state-controlled Gazprom, whose gas reserves were recently valued at $78 billion and which is actively pushing to become a big player in the oil market. It is merging with Russia's seventh largest oil company, state-owned Rosneft, and Alexei Miller, Gazprom's chief executive, has signaled his interest in another oil producer, Zarubezhneft. Most dramatically, Gazprom has emerged as the best-positioned candidate to acquire the company that forms the core of Yukos--a Siberia-based corporation called Yugansk...
Still, the President would have to tread carefully. Word went out from Air Force One that no one in the campaign or at G.O.P. headquarters was to make a political calculation within earshot of a reporter. While Bush spoke in Toledo in the late afternoon, his political aides discussed setting a trap for Kerry. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice briefed Bush throughout the day on the details of the tape, and Chase Untermeyer, the U.S. ambassador to Qatar, tried to persuade al-Jazeera not to run it. Once aides were sure the video was being aired, however, Bush wrote down...
...often the case, it seems clear that it was the protestors’ message, more than anything else, that led the city to tread on their Constitutionally protected rights. To the Court and to us, this emphasizes all the more the imperative to vociferously guard our freedoms, especially against a rapidly changing world—a reality some politicians are far too eager to use to restrict the liberties of the people. As Tjoflat writes, “We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely...