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  • Rockefeller's reversal came to mind last week when former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, former NATO Secretary General Javier Solana, three former Latin American presidents from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, and the current prime minister of Greece among others issued a joint report—as the Global Commission on Drug Policy—"describ[ing] the drug war as a failure and call[ing] for a paradigm shift in global drug policy."

    More Calls for a Drug War Cease-Fire Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011

  • Rockefeller's reversal came to mind last week when former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, former NATO Secretary General Javier Solana, three former Latin American presidents from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, and the current prime minister of Greece among others issued a joint report—as the Global Commission on Drug Policy—"describ[ing] the drug war as a failure and call[ing] for a paradigm shift in global drug policy."

    More Calls for a Drug War Cease-Fire Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011

  • As far back as May, The Fix wrote that Perriello "is deeply skeptical about the approach the White House has taken to Wall Street and describ [es] Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner as a clone of Bush Administration Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson."

    Perriello beat Boehner to the punch on call for Geithner firing 2010

  • The only change I see is that Thompson is arguably being unethical by discussing what work he did for a client -- that's confidential and privileged (I highly doubt he got the terrorist/client's consent to say this) and it's not up to Fred to describ his work just because he thinks it will help him politically.

    Thompson Responds To Story Charging He Consulted For Flight 103 Bombers 2009

  • According to the article about 30 % of people with successful businesses would describ themselves as dyslexic not sure what the result would be if they tested them all but it might be interesting.

    Snell-Pym » Dyslexics and Business 2008

  • Whole panels filled by a word balloon as characters practice exposition to describ what the heck is going on.

    Comic musings for 5 July Fred Perry 2007

  • Whole panels filled by a word balloon as characters practice exposition to describ what the heck is going on.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Fred Perry 2007

  • Nathan had been describ 'ed in the Post as a "ninja warrior in court."

    Along Came a Spider Patterson, James, 1947- 1993

  • Edmund Leach provides “structural charts” describ - ing the various versions of Creation, Fall, and First Murder in accordance with the ideas of Claude Lévi-Strauss.

    MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968

  • Afterwards experience comes in play to persuade us that two bodies, situated in the manner above-describ'd, have really such a capacity of receiving body betwixt them, and that there is no obstacle to the conversion of the invisible and intangible distance into one that is visible and tangible.

    A treatise of human nature 1739

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