Word: festers
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...report was requested by Bill Clinton more than a year ago, in the aftermath of the Columbine school massacre, when raw pop culture was blamed for furnishing some of the mental climate in which the killers let their grievances fester. Sidestepping the interminable question of what role song lyrics and movies play in real violence, Clinton asked the FTC just to determine whether the movies, pop music and video games that manufacturers themselves label as questionable for kids were being marketed to kids anyway. The report concluded that "the answers are plainly...
...report was requested by Bill Clinton more than a year ago, in the aftermath of the Columbine school massacre, when raw pop culture was blamed for furnishing some of the mental climate in which the killers let their grievances fester. Sidestepping the interminable question of what role song lyrics and movies play in real violence, Clinton asked the FTC just to determine whether the movies, pop music and video games that manufacturers themselves label as questionable for kids were being marketed to kids anyway. The report concluded that "the answers are plainly...
...they've got an important post just waiting for a permanent appointment. Even if Smith is eventually exonerated, the Army can't afford to sit around and wait for him, Thompson says. "Smith will appeal the investigation's findings, and the Army knows they can't allow this to fester while the case drags...
...north and the Republic of Korea to the south. Both claim total and exclusive legitimacy over all the Korean people. Tens of thousands of Americans, Chinese and others--as well as literally millions of Koreans--have suffered or died as a result of this division, and it continues to fester as a source of potential conflict and instability in one of the most economically dynamic and important regions of the world...
Putin studiously avoids defining Yeltsin's legacy but hints broadly in his public appearances that central power under Yeltsin was feeble. Some regional leaders, he claims, "forgot that there was a President." Until he became Prime Minister, Chechnya was handled with "amateurism," he says, and left to fester to the point that it became a deadly danger...