Word: trumps
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...resist an impulse to say, "You're fat, out of shape and you smoke. Why would you even think of doing any of this stuff? Just because you can see?" Erik is not impatient or smug, but he tires of people assuming that sight will trump all other attributes and senses combined...
...committee met as a whole every other weekend, shuttling back and forth between places like Harper’s law firm and Houghton’s Corning offices in the Trump Towers in New York, and locations in Cambridge, usually Loeb House or the Inn at Harvard...
...Thurmond goes, Lott needs another Republican to keep his job as majority leader. Daschle is in the hunt for a Republican to trump Lott if Thurmond hangs on, or to play defense if Lott manages to convince a Democrat to switch. Here are some of the Senators in their sights...
...Liberals may disagree. They may argue that the needs of the poor trump individual liberty, that governments and student groups can play Robin Hood without violating property rights, that conservatives are worried about nothing. I am open to the possibility that, someday, they just might persuade me. But they will never win me over so long as they keep trying to steal the moral high ground by scaring people with the myth of the heartless conservative. So let’s wipe the slate clean and start over with a commitment to be honest about each other?...
...officials suggest that the only logical way around China's opposition is for Washington and Beijing to agree, at least tacitly, to allow China to have enough nukes to trump whatever missile shield the U.S. deploys. That won't endear Bush and Rumsfeld to G.O.P. conservatives, but Washington insists the shield is not aimed at China anyway. "They may even double the number" of their missiles aimed at the U.S., Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Other government arms experts believe a U.S. missile shield could trigger a tenfold increase in Chinese missiles aimed at the U.S. China...