Word: slipperyness
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I want to say a very loud thank-you to Charles Krauthammer for having the courage to call for a stop to human cloning of any kind [VIEWPOINT, June 24]. More and more people are being seduced by the idea that human cloning will bring health discoveries that will cure...
They never had to be, until the corporate trust scandals landed on the President and Vice President like a sack of nickels. At issue is whether the two men benefited during their business careers from the same kind of cronyism and slippery accounting that the Administration is now publicly condemning...
The U.S. is not a party to the treaty that established the court. (President Clinton signed the treaty, with many reservations, but the Bush Administration has "unsigned" it.) Despite what you might suppose, Washington is not alone; neither China nor India has signed the treaty, and Russia has not ratified...
In general, science has a hard time pinning down emotions because they are by nature so slippery and subjective. You can't ask a rat if it's anxious or depressed. Even most people are as clueless about why they have certain feelings as they are about how their lungs...
“It was fast to point of slippery,” Grant said. “I didn’t have really good practices going into it. That was definitely the foremost thought in my mind—just being able to stay on balance and deliver...