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The GOP was gearing up to criticize Clinton for coddling dictators, but the Kosovo bombing short-circuited this argument.
But what Gerth alleges, and fails to prove, is the much more glamorous charge that Clinton short-circuited existing laws to allow a major Democratic donor to sell ballistic weapons secrets to China.
Rieff has also short-circuited criticism by making arguments that, if they are not flatly self-contradictory, can only be the stages of a grand dialectical work-in-progress of Hegelian complexity.
Thus, TEM1 regulation can be short-circuited without a major effect on chromosome loss.
Three of its models were deemed "not acceptable" by the magazine, thanks to a design flaw--since fixed--that could have short-circuited the device.