Word: fielding
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Some American officials are suggesting that they are prepared to rewrite the rules for Pakistan. Cutting off assistance, says a senior U.S. diplomat, "could be provocative and produce more in the nuclear field than continuing aid would." Now that Pakistan has the Bomb, he argues, the U.S. should strive for "confidence that the program is frozen" and not expanded to build more and bigger weapons...
...lived near an apartment where the White Pride group were drinking one night, and was attacked with two friends while returning from a party. A skinhead named Kenneth Mieske came up behind Seraw with a baseball bat and struck his head "as hard as you'd hit a center field ball," Dees told the jury last week. Then Mieske stood over the fallen Seraw and hit him repeatedly, splitting open his skull...
...industry has resisted the creation of reasonable regulation," Dassenko told a group of the reinsurers from whom Transit is now trying to collect. "As a result, dishonest, unethical and incompetent competitors play on the same field with honest businessmen who exercise good judgment." In effect, the bad guys charge too little for insurance, living high on the hog and then just putting their companies into bankruptcy when the claims come due. "The end result," says Dassenko, "is that the good businessmen suffer twice: first by losing business to the bad guys whose rates they can't match; and then again...
...regulation is no worse than consistently mediocre federal regulation would be, and that the current furor in Congress has snapped state regulators to attention. But where it's really frightening, and where any crisis, if we get one, is likely to erupt, is in reinsurance, an almost entirely unregulated field of undisclosed relationships crisscrossing national boundaries...
Asked to clarify his position as he jogged in a St. Petersburg baseball park, Bush pointed to his backside and gibed, "Read my hips." Then, literally and metaphorically, he abandoned the playing field. He later said he would wait for Congress to clear up the confusion he had helped engender. / Bush's vacillation confounded his allies and delighted his opponents. Newspapers across the country bannered headlines studded with words like WAFFLE, RETREAT, BLINK and ZIG-ZAG. Bush's approval rating, which stood in the mid-70s only a month ago, plummeted 10 to 15 points. It was, said a senior...