Word: openly
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Conservatives and states' rights activists need not fear the VAWA; it is not an attempt to open the floodgates of federal legislation of intrastate economic activity. Rather, when viewed in its all-important context, it is simply a legitimate attempt to address an issue of interstate commerce and correct an admitted violation of equal protection across the states...
...religious freedom, and it is an issue where the U.S. can actually have an impact. It is time for the U.S. to take a more vocal and vigorous stand to protect the rights and dignity of the religiously observant in China. In Imperial China, the government was at times open to and interested in the ideas of Jesuit missionaries; the U.S. must use its influence to move China's current government towards this tradition of tolerance and away from the cheap excuse of nationalism it now uses to rationalize repression...
...AIDS debate is only the first act in a busy agenda for council president Holbrooke, who during his month in the post wants to keep the spotlight shining on Africa. He has already held an open discussion on sub-Saharan refugees, has invited Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms to address the council, and is trying to broker a peace in the multicountry Congo...
...America Online, have inked the biggest deal in corporate history. Levin is nibbling on pieces of fruit, sipping room-temperature mineral water and projecting a becoming tranquillity. He looks as if he's just stepped in from Harvard Yard, wrapped in a forest green corduroy jacket with an open-necked plaid shirt tucked underneath. When he speaks, his voice has the delicate cadence of a professor singing out the most violent passages of Macbeth with a studied calm. He has, it seems, left his globe-striding, Gulfstream-riding, options-exercising CEO persona somewhere on the other side of this megadeal...
...course, the problem has precisely to do with "down the road"--two or three mergers down the road. Never mind that AOL's Case had been agitating for an FCC rule mandating nondiscriminatory access to Internet service providers (known as open access). Now that AOL has bought its own access, he seems to be saying that no governmental regulatory intervention is necessary. Good old AOL Time Warner will provide open access voluntarily...