Word: light
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...hotly contested election in which the party of the winning candidate supports official separation of Taiwan from mainland China. The weeks prior to the election were marred by a string of thinly veiled warnings by the mainland regime to dissuade voters in Taiwan from considering this candidate. In light of the results of the polls, however, it would appear that these efforts were ineffectual at best and dangerously provocative at worst...
Lowry added that in both her serious and light works, she tries to create monsters and then present them in an unexpected...
...Bush-Gore debates. Bush, who said he wouldn't fire until fired upon in what appears to be an inevitably ugly, ugly presidential race, blasted his opponent's character and trustworthiness in an interview with the Washington Post on Wednesday. While the Gore camp calls the interview hypocritical in light of Bush's promise to run a "positive" campaign, few Americans are actually holding out any hope that we'll see two campaigns of ideas, free of personal attacks. This year, it's not the economy, stupid - we've fixed that - it's character. That's the issue that...
Listen closely, and you'll hear a slight catch in the Voice of America. And in light of recent events, it's not hard to understand why. Wednesday, the federal government agreed to pay $508 million to 1,100 women who charged the venerable, pro-democracy public radio service with gender discrimination back in 1977. The gigantic cash settlement represents by far the largest disbursement in any discrimination suit in the public or private sector. Each of the plaintiffs claims she was denied job opportunities or promotions within the radio service on the basis of her gender. Some women even...
...basically want to do the best we can to educate the community, especially the depositors, what their rights are in this conversion," Braude said. "We see it as necessary to shine some light on a deal hatched in darkness that will affect this community...