Word: direct
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...economics is bunk since it's largely based on (what to them appears) untenable assumptions, others criticize free market solutions because of the incredible difficulty in valuing the environment. Still, most environmentalists believe that political will and the action of individuals is necessary to solve our environmental problems, in direct contrasts to economists who put their faith in market self-regulation. Recent events in California, however, provide some strong support that both groups are right, while both are wrong: The free market does provide some measure of environmental protection, even though political will is the most effective tool...
...pond. Mor spotted a muzzle flash from the Tanzim next to Aida's main mosque, 300 yds. away. "They want to make me hit the mosque and get the people more fired up," he thought at the time. Mor picked up the red phone that is on a direct line to his commander, Colonel Marcel Aviv. They spoke quickly, then Aviv listened in as Mor guided a helicopter into place above the target. At Mor's command, five missiles hammered into the refugee camp. Two hit the upper floors of the rough, cinder-block home of Omar Da'ajna...
...part of the shell that killed his sons. Nahid and Sami Salman were Tanzim gunmen. They went to this building on the edge of the village of Kafr Khalil to shoot at the side of the main road into Nablus. The tank's return fire was a direct hit. Adil straightens up and leans against the remains of the doorway. "We are fighting them with stones and old guns. They are fighting with planes, tanks and missiles," he says. "But whatever power they have, we will win, with God's help." As he speaks, the old man notices that where...
...outstanding African American would have the title. Jesse Jackson - a shameless hypemeister, a genius of self-promotion with a talent for survival and a gift for grifting silly old whitey - stays in business because of a complex racial physics dictating that his viability as a black spokesman/agitator stands in direct proportion to the extent he succeeds in infuriating white folks and, from time to time, shaking them down. He infuriates. He reconciles. The check comes forward in its smiling envelope...
...weighing the imminent closure of the current negotiating "window" - and the expanded opportunity created by Barak's desperation - against the wisdom of making a deal with a lame-duck Israeli leader underwritten by a lame-duck U.S. president. Although Arafat has not ruled out the possibility of direct talks with Barak in the coming weeks, he may be content to go through the motions and wait to see where the political chips may fall. And, of course, to spend a good part of his time in Washington trying to cozy up to Colin Powell and Condi Rice...