Word: ground
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While the panelists clashed on many of the issues, reached a middle ground on some issues, like musical lyrics, which they agreed should never be censored, even as Goldsmith said some lyrics should be condemned...
This is truly a ground-breaking moment in political history: It is the first time that a major candidate for the American presidency has used mathematics as a justification for a political philosophy...
...despite restrictions on the space available, Knowles says Harvard may build an underground parking garage in the North Yard near the Divinity School and use the above-ground area for academic buildings...
...funerals. It's heartbreaking work for the medical personnel because the disease can't be treated, only contained. And the squalid refugee camps of northern Uganda - established to house people fleeing attacks by a sociopathic guerrilla movement calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army - are a fertile breeding ground, given their poor sanitation. Whereas a previous outbreak in the Congo in 1995 was ultimately contained, health officials are concerned that it could spread more rapidly in the Ugandan region, where there is much more frequent movement of people, particularly refugees from the LRA. Indeed, guerrilla attacks since the current outbreak...
...Although Israel has never tried to formally annex the West Bank and Gaza after capturing them in 1967, it began confiscating Palestinian land and building Israeli settlements from the 1970s onward in order to create "facts on the ground" in any future peace negotiations. Those facts on the ground now include some 120,000 Israeli settlers dotted throughout the West Bank and a further 5,000 in Gaza - territory that Israel, by the logic of the Oslo peace process, ultimately intends to cede to a Palestinian state. Needless to say the settlers, who are predominantly armed ideologues laying claim...