Word: washed
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This tug between the justice of the Lithuanian cause and the need to preserve these other values embodied by Gorbachev is the source of Western paralysis over Lithuania. It is no use trying to justify that paralysis by denying, by appeal to Lincoln, the Lithuanian case. It won't wash. Our paralysis is justified only by admitting that the Lithuanian cause conflicts irreconcilably with other important values...
...high and dry with the introduction of disposables. When Procter & Gamble's Pampers appeared in 1961, disposables held only 1% of the market; today they account for 85% of the $3.5 billion diaper industry. "We were against the ropes in the '70s," recalls Nan Scott, president of Dy-Dee Wash in San Francisco. "A lot of companies went bankrupt. Now we're bouncing back...
...Flag Burning will have shared their false hopes of your generosity with other groups perhaps 30 times during a year. Not for free, of course. But the income to the name supplier is a cost to the name buyer, so from the general ideological perspective, it's a wash. And this might go on for three years before the computers figure out that you're not the soft touch they took you for. That's 90 more letters at 20 cents each (not counting name-rental costs), or $18. By sending in $25, you have cost groups to which...
...mugs display an image of the Earth with "Earth Day--Every Day" surrounding it, and substitute "GA-I-A" in the "VE-RI-TAS" shield in honor of the Greek earth goddess. Upon returning to their dorms, the dedicated first-years wash out their mugs and ready them for the next meal...
Five hundred miles south, you can stand on the banks of the Mississippi and watch that topsoil roll by, going down to the Gulf of Mexico. The 34 million acres of fragile cropland taken out of production over the past few years have helped stem this wash, but farmers are still losing to erosion four tons of topsoil for every ton of grain produced...