Word: weaponeer
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...that hard-line Fatah stance is no longer enough for most Palestinians here. High-ranking officials of Abbas' own party fear that he will trade away their right of return to what is now Israel. "Yassir Arafat went into negotiations with the olive branch in one hand and a weapon in the other hand," says one Beirut Fatah commander. "But all Mahmoud Abbas does is negotiate. He gets nothing, but he keeps negotiating. Palestinians believe in military operations because they want to go back to Palestine. They don't want to negotiate." (Read "After Israel's Election, Palestinians Weigh...
...reason is Sunstein's support for cost-benefit analysis, the practice of examining regulations to ensure that their benefit to society outweighs whatever costs they impose. Liberal advocacy groups claim that cost-benefit analysis has been a weapon that every Republican President since Ronald Reagan - who created OIRA - has used to thwart effective government regulation of the environment, workplace and consumer safety. OIRA, after all, examines all proposed federal regulations before they take effect - be they issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration - and it has the power...
...economy dominated the agenda such that Obama mostly avoided discussing the still troubling national-security situation. He announced the dispatch of 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan by press release. He has avoided any direct comment on the continued concern that Iran is close to developing its first nuclear weapon. The war in Iraq, which has thus far claimed the lives of 13 soldiers in February, has been put under review - but the President has resisted specific comments about plans to withdraw troops. Meanwhile, the military has continued - some would argue increased - regular remote-control missile attacks on suspected terrorists...
...studied at the University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi, Cover worked as a contract scientist on NASA's Apollo moon program. It was during this period in the 1960s--an era of civil unrest, airplane hijackings and urban violence--that he began to ponder the need for a nonlethal weapon...
...recruits]. At the same time she is spending a lot of time getting better.”This year isn’t the only year Kim has helped out her team when it was in a pinch. Last year, as a freshman, she learned an entirely new weapon, the epee, when it was a weak facet of the team. This year, Kim’s versatility and work ethic allowed her to earn her way to a starting role.Kim wrote to Brand the summer before entering college, telling him of her desire to fence in college. Although Brand explained...