Word: wrought
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...convinced that anything but a tiny minority of Israelis has had a change of heart about peace. Having been in the territories a couple of months ago and seen what the devastation of the Israeli-American peace process has wrought on the Palestinians, I came to the painful conclusion that better a crude and brutal Netanyahu than a posturing--but also crude and brutal, judging by his actions in the territories and in Lebanon--Peres...
...influential that it eventually took on an anesthetizing quality of its own. The restored warehouses, quaint specialty shops, cookie stations and sidewalk jugglers came to seem as artificial and cliched as the suburban malls they were intended to compete with. But Rouse, who died last week at 81, wrought more changes and brought more hope to the American city than any builder...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted U.S. troops on the front lines of the Bosnia peacekeeping mission in the first visit by a first lady to a potentially hostile area since Eleanor Roosevelt. Mrs. Clinton also met with members of the Federation Constitutional Court, where she was told about the death wrought by the civil war. "Sarajevo is the largest graveyard in the world," Katarina Mandic told the first lady. "On every corner we find dead bodies. Dead animals. We found blood and destruction everywhere." Mrs. Clinton is on an eight-day goodwill trip through Europe with her daughter Chelsea. The first...
...tobacco suits, called "unjust enrichment." Rather than suing on behalf of specific sick individuals, a strategy that has yet to succeed, the states are claiming they are tobacco's hit-and-run victims, stuck paying out billions of taxpayer dollars each year to treat the array of health problems wrought by smoking. In other words, says one frustrated tobacco-industry lawyer, "the states are taking the position that they don't have to prove anything except the company sold the cigarettes." This denies tobacco's advocates all their favorite defenses--that the individual's health problems may have been caused...
Violence is, of course, more than statistics. Behind every number and percentage is a name, a face, and a grief. There is also a culpability and responsibility that we all share. The problem of youth violence is not a "ghetto" problem from which we can hide, behind the wrought-iron gates of Harvard. The problem is widespread and complicated, affecting children in rural and suburban areas as well as urban children. In 1987, 415,000 violent crimes occurred in or around schools. We all have a responsibility to provide a safe community for children--all children. Since we share...