Word: neutralized
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...neutral Sweden and Finland, the groups were created without the governments' knowledge. In NATO countries Norway and Denmark, the units were built with official cooperation. But in addition, Colby revealed, the CIA secretly formed its own backup networks in both Norway and Denmark. Still unknown are how many of these organizations are alive today and what they may have been up to lately...
Finding a new president meant conducting a six to eight month search, and that meant putting the Harvard Fundraising Machine into neutral for up to a year. Alumni and officials worried that the drive might lose its momentum in the nine to 12 month interim...
...firmly believe that racially neutral criteria were used to make [admissions] decisions," UCLA's statement read, "and that the [Office of Civil Rights] has no basis to conclude that discrimination exists...
...most comforting thought--holding Supreme Court nominees up to an ideological litmus test. Judges, after all, are supposed to be "objective" or "impartial" jurists. They're supposed to understand some neutral legal framework embodied in the Constitution and decide the merits of specific cases without regard to political ends...
Fifty years ago, when Hitler's tanks were poised at the English Channel and his bombers were pounding London, Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that the U.S., though still neutral, had to supply Britain with the military equipment it desperately needed. "We must admit that there is risk in any course we may take," F.D.R. said on a national radio broadcast. But backing America's natural ally "involves the least risk now and the greatest hope for world peace in the future...