Word: bedrock
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Mistrust of North Korea has been a bedrock U.S. policy since war on the Korean peninsula ended in 1953. Pyongyang's erratic behavior consistently confirms such skepticism. The latest confrontation was quite deliberate, says a senior Bush aide. For more than two years, the CIA had been collecting shards of information suggesting that North Korea was secretly pursuing nuclear weapons, despite the 1994 Agreed Framework requiring Pyongyang to freeze its program to extract plutonium from reprocessed reactor fuel. (The CIA has long thought that North Korea made--and kept--one or two plutonium-based bombs from before...
...Women are the bedrock, the financial foundation, in our homes,” Thomas-Graham said. “They are making the decisions about what to buy, not just in the supermarket, but in the stock market...
Debate and dialogue are bedrock principles of this University. It troubles me that a Harvard professor would view such a challenge, no matter how brashly issued, as even remotely comparable to a “Star Chamber”—another analogy founded on suspect historical reasoning...
Gomes said he feels strongly that the Christian bedrock of the school, must be, if anything, strengthened...
...That's understandable on this, the first post 9/11 Independence Day holiday. But has everything really changed? Are we fundamentally altered as nation? No - and yes. In many parts of the country, the deadly attacks of 9/11 did little to alter the bedrock of status quo. You don't need to look far to see how much things haven't changed: America's slums are still infested with roaches and drug dealers, our public schools are still suffering from inattention, and too many of our citizens are still abandoned to the streets, sub-par nursing facilities or mental institutions...