Word: tat
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...Friday's terror tit-for-tat will eclipse any talk of cease-fire terms. And recent history suggests that Palestinian attacks won't stop, no matter how heavy the consequences. Israel believes it can pummel the Palestinian Authority into halting violence, and refuses to talk about anything else until it ends; the Palestinians believe they have no incentive for stopping attacks on Israelis in the absence of a peace process. And so Israelis and Palestinians remain trapped in a strategic cul-de-sac, and no amount of violence is likely to blow a hole through to the other side...
...even if the Bush administration wanted to stop the Games going to Beijing, it would struggle to prevail in the IOC on the basis of a directly political agenda. The Olympic movement suffered heavily from the tit-for-tat boycotts of 1980 and 1984, when the U.S. and the Soviets refused to attend each other's Olympiads, and delegates may be leery of allowing geopolitical conflict to determine the movement's agenda. And direct criticism of China on human rights grounds tends to be confined to Western nations. Taking the recent defeat of the U.S. in an election...
...were you Larry, I’d do something about this quick. Princeton, as usual, has made us look downright stingy by doing away with loans entirely. Matching them tit-for-tat won’t do—Harvard, of all places, should never be caught playing catch-up for long. So I’d like to propose a new financial aid formula—you economists like formulas, don’t you?—to use for financial aid. If family income after taxes < $100,000 x # of children/family then tuition, room and board...
...Napster, meanwhile, is looking about as dated as Henley. The site that with Mp3.com is likely to have changed the music business forever is now struggling to make it through the spring, engaged in a tit-for-tat legal battle with the RIAA as it gets around to complying with a technologically tricky (and market-share-killing) court order requiring it to remove all copyrighted material from its service...
...those countries for real, and the words and gestures he used seemed designed to show that the candidate hadn't been kidding. In response to the February arrest of alleged spy Robert Hanssen, Bush ordered nearly 50 Russians out of the U.S., setting off a round of tit-for-tat expulsions not seen since the mid-'80s. In talks with China's Vice Premier, Qian Qichen, he bluntly said Washington would sell whatever arms it chose to Taiwan, whether Beijing liked it or not. Bush and his advisers seemed downright eager to prove there's a new sheriff in town...