Word: pose
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...other doctors, three of whom have been killed by anti-abortion activists. The federal agents advise you to buy a bulletproof vest and equip your office with bulletproof glass. You take the advice, and call a lawyer, who deconstructs the situation this way: Does the web site in question pose an actual threat, or is it merely an exercise in First Amendment rights...
...liability case, all parties involved are playing the blame game. Last weekend trial lawyers leaked an internal Ford document from 1989 that shows the company may have recommended inflating the Firestone tires to less than the maximum level to decrease the possibility of a rollover, even though underinflated tires pose a greater threat of tread separation. Ford says the SUVs' design isn't the issue. None of the similar Goodyear tires used on its SUVs have had that problem. Senator John McCain will try to resolve some of these issues in Commerce Committee hearings next week...
...undergo the series of five shots in the arm each year may not need them. (Once a dozen notoriously painful injections in the abdomen was standard treatment). Doctors, usually E.R. docs, go ahead with the shots even when rabies is so rare in a locale that it doesn't pose any real threat. Other times, they don't bother to determine if the offending animal is in fact infected...
...parade around as an orthodox Jew, I asked? Because Connecticut's politics were already filled with preppies, either authentic WASPs like the Bushes or near WASPs like the Buckleys. To get ahead in the Nutmeg State, you needed an ethnic angle. This meant that he had to pose as a Jew. After a day of running around in his Jewish pose, complete with Yiddishisms and a rabbinical demeanor, he'd come home each night to his manse, slip on a pair of plaid pants and a kelly blazer and announce: "Jeezus, these people. Gawd, I have to wash my hands...
...Delegates" can pose for pictures (sponsored by your friendly local multinational media companies) in "Air Force One" and "The Oval Office," and can sit (but keep the line moving, please) in the "presidential limousine...