Word: wade
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...know they can't." The blockades crippled local trade and boosted inflation in Gambia, which imports much of its fuel and other goods from Senegal. And it cut off access to Gambia's sea port, through which goods flow to neighbors such as Mali and Guinea. Senegalese President Abdulaye Wade suggested that his country should buy its own ferry to use on the River Gambia - or even tunnel under its neighbor. There are many longer tunnels in the world, Wade said, and China had already offered to help dig one here. Earlier this month, regional power Nigeria stepped...
Whatever one thinks about the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, there can be little doubt of its judicial aggressiveness. At the time, the abortion issue, although hardly unsung, had been debated fully in only a few state legislatures. By grabbing the case, locating a previously unspecified right to abortion in the Constitution and telling the states to respect that right, the Justices effectively defined the issue and pre-empted a legislative solution. The result: the court was stuck particularizing its position for the next 20 years...
...Right on a rampage over what some saw as a betrayal, Dobson spoke of "things that I'm privy to that I can't describe because of confidentiality." Had Dobson received an assurance from Rove that Miers, now the White House counsel, would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade? Democrats suspected so, and said they would call Dobson as a witness at her confirmation hearing, which is likely to begin late this month or in early November...
...supportive of abortion, that she had been a member of the Texas Right to Life." Even so, Dobson says, ?Rove didn't tell me anything about the way Harriet Miers would vote on cases that may come before the Supreme Court. We did not discuss Roe v. Wade in any context or any other pending issue that will be considered by the court...
...conservatives may now have more reason to worry about Miers. Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht, a longtime friend of Miers who has been enlisted to reassure conservatives she will support their causes, said it would "easy" for Miers to support the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, even if she thinks abortion is murder. "Legal issues and personal issues are just two different things," Hecht said...