Word: weighing
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...weigh the tax benefits and investment risks before joining the harvest. If your losses are large, you may be able to sell a security without altering your investment strategy...
Luckily, Congressional leaders are no longer as concerned with seeming to be unpatriotic and new policy battles are raging. Politicians began to weigh in on the new anti-terrorism measures recently passed by the House and Senate, acknowledging the necessity of debating the tradeoff between security and civil liberties. Other proposals related to Sept. 11, such as arming pilots, have also split legislative committees. But while those debates defied party lines, the most contentious and most partisan issue is the President’s economic relief package...
...swift and successful conclusion. Unless Muslim coalition members explicitly threaten to withdraw their support as a result of continued fighting during Ramadan, military activities in Afghanistan should continue as dictated by our objectives. In the case that such a threat is made, President Bush and his advisors must carefully weigh any strategic changes against the consequences of a defection by Muslim allies. For the time being, however, fighting during Ramadan will have to be a part of the war against terrorism...
...have circulated that Soviet suitcase nukes (also known as atomic demolition munitions, or ADMs) had gone unaccounted for and presumably ended up on the Russian black market. The Russians have offered confusing and conflicting statements about the disposition of their ADMs, leading some to suspect the worst. The ADMs weigh from 60 lbs. to 100 lbs., according to Bruce Blair, a former U.S. Air Force officer and expert on Soviet nuclear weapons. They could be carried in a case 8 in. by 16 in. by 24 in. The fissile material inside the mini-nukes degrades over time, though...
...committee advising University President Lawrence H. Summers on the search for a new dean of the Graduate School of Education (GSE) met for the second time on Tuesday, as the school’s faculty and students began to weigh in on issues facing the top-ranked institution...