Word: unafraidness
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They are not. Publicly, Israeli officials are noncommittal. "Privately," concedes a senior Israeli army commander, "we are apoplectic. Acknowledging that moderate Palestinians actually exist in the middle of the intifadeh and that they are unafraid to meet Israelis when they know we can jail them on the flimsiest of pretexts means it might really be possible to achieve a peaceful solution -- which is exactly what Shamir is against. To him, calm talk can lead only to the thing he fears most, a Palestinian state in the West Bank...
...East, according to the West, plays a tamer brand of hockey. In the West, according to the West, hockey is played at blistering speeds with big men who are unafraid of slamming into each other. The West, according to the West, is the best...
...enlarge the Bank of Crete. Private banks routinely had to wait at least a year for authorization to open a single branch. But the Bank of Crete opened about 50 branches in four years, and licenses were granted for an additional 20. Sure of his political shield, Koskotas was unafraid to violate banking laws and withdraw huge sums of cash at will. If Koskotas worried aloud about audits, Papandreou was always reassuring. "So long as I am here," Koskotas says Papandreou told him, "you never have to worry...
Harvard, traditionally a skating team, proved it could play rough-and-tumble hockey with its bigger foes. Defenseman Kevan Melrose and the team's fourth line, composed of Craig Taucher, Paul Howley and Ed Presz, were aggressive skaters, unafraid of taking the body...
Heinsohn, as the blurbs on his book proclaim, is straight forward, unafraid of criticizing even people dear to him--the Celtics, for instance. Heinsohn believes the Celtics will face an uphill fight this season to reclaim their success of past years...