Word: neutralizes
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Politicians took sides, with anti-Castro Republicans arguing for asylum, and Democrats asking for the letter of the law, which seemed to indicate that a father's will should prevail. As the situation in Little Havana grew more tense, Attorney General Janet Reno sought to get Elian to a neutral site. The Miami relatives were unwilling to give him up. At 4 a.m. on April 22, Reno was in phone negotiations with the family, having already put in motion a raid to seize Elian. At 5 a.m. federal agents moved in, powered past 50 protesters and moved swiftly through...
Judges like to say they are searching for "neutral principles" to decide cases. But the overall effect of the ideological inconsistencies on both sides was to cast doubt that the court was blindly administering justice. Says University of Virginia constitutional law professor A.E. Dick Howard: "It certainly invites you to read this as a results-driven opinion...
...right on schedule. Tuesday, at the customary 2:15 p.m. in the East, the Fed stayed in line with expectations and officially took its eye off inflation, leaving interest rates alone but restoring its bias - the only sanctioned statement of what the Fed's own expectations are - to neutral. The Fed's explanation: "While some inflation risks persist, they are diminished by the more moderate pace of economic activity...
...Life is messy. It is often maddeningly so, as in the case of Florida. Over many centuries, people lucky enough to live in democracies have devised a method to draw some kind of certainty from life's irregularities. Through their representatives they write laws, and these laws become neutral, objective principles to which everyone can appeal. A law is intended to bring order out of chaos. When it turns out that the law is poorly suited to its purposes or otherwise deficient, then it can be changed. But it must be changed in a particular way: by the people themselves...
...third, Moore weaved his way through the neutral zone, dished the puck to Packard from the left circle. Packard was perched at the crease but a Wildcats' defenseman interfered to send the puck out of play...