Word: wrecks
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...draft of a proposed peace treaty that Christopher expects to put before the three Presidents as soon as talks begin. Holbrooke's tempo has some critics, notably in the French Foreign Ministry. They contend it results in the papering over of contentious details that may crop up later to wreck a seeming agreement. Holbrooke's answer is that stopping to iron out all the details is a sure formula for having negotiations--and war and bloodshed--drag on forever...
...Chavis, it stretches credulity to believe that a man whose most recent accomplishment was helping to wreck the nation's most important civil rights organization is capable of leading a campaign that he claims will "stop the senseless self-destruction within the black community." Only last year, this self-appointed protector of "our black children, our families and our communities" was fired from his job as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the unauthorized spending of $332,400 in organizational funds to settle a sexual-harassment claim. Indeed, all the N.A.A.C.P...
...this war, the G.O.P.'s first weapon is the much-talked-about "train wreck"--the shutdown of government operations that could occur if Congress and the President fail to agree on 13 new spending bills by Oct. 1, the first year's installment toward balancing the budget. But even if both sides can avoid that crack-up, which they probably will, the Republicans have started threatening a far bigger disaster: unless the President signs on to the G.O.P. schedule for balancing the budget, the Republicans are threatening to allow the U.S. to default on its debts, with all the ensuing...
...depressed reading Wright's article that I could hardly finish it. Science now confirms what my girlfriend told me when she dumped me: I am an evolutionary wreck. Cro-Magnon is the term she used. I had to watch Mary Poppins twice to snap out of it. CARROLL MILLER Lufkin, Texas Via E-mail...
That includes some scientists. Although he has never been to the very deepest trenches, ocean explorer Robert Ballard of Woods Hole, who is best known for discovering the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, is convinced that the action lies in the relative shallows. "I believe that the deep sea has very little to offer," he says. "I've been there. I've spent a career there. I don't see the future there." The French have decided not even to bother trying to break the 20,000 ft. barrier--the range of their deepest-diving submersible, the three-person...