Word: pose
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...such contributions without a belief that the public wants big money out of politics. The agreement should therefore embolden politicians to call for the elimination of soft money in their campaigns as part of campaign finance reform. The thorny issues that still threaten the New York agreement, however, will pose equally strong barriers to reform at the national level...
Under the First Amendment, a federal soft-money ban would be powerless to stop truly independent issue ads--nor should such advertisements pose a threat to the integrity of campaigns. However, there is a strong danger that so-called independent groups may in fact have links to candidates or parties, and drawing the lines will be a difficult and politically wrenching task. Nevertheless, these difficulties should not prevent other politicians, notably our current presidential candidates, from adopting the New York deal as their own. On the same note, they should not slow the passage of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance...
...American affairs in a nuclear calculus is intended to create an international and domestic climate that nurtures the security and well being of Indian citizens. However, the paramount position that the U.S. affords to arms control actually shields our country from having to treat seriously other issues that potentially pose as great an immediate threat to the stability of the Indian state. Rampant overpopulation, judicial corruption and abuses of child labor, among numerous other domestic ills, are pressing concerns to the Indian people and arguably should inform, if not dictate, certain American foreign policy decisions...
...where, yet again, she wound up on the floor. She walked out of the gym and it seemed for moment that finding herself in 18th place, she had given up and would not even try to compete on the last apparatus. But the girl who had the nerve to pose nude in Russian Playboy came back in and got up on the beam, normally her weakest event...
...question of which approach, Bush's or Gore's, would leave the economy in the best shape to weather the shocks foreseeable a quarter-century or so ahead. In the view of the less partisan members of TIME's board, the answer is, neither. But the competing plans pose quite different answers to the question of how best to distribute the benefits--or more bluntly, to that fundamental political question, Who gets what...