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Committees with responsibility for the Defense Department paid little heed to developing military responses to terrorism and stymied intelligence reform.
Perhaps the better conceit than credibility is consistency . The consistent Israeli policy, for instance, of not giving concessions to terrorists is widely acknowledged to have stymied the once common hijackings and other acts of terror directed against Israel.
This strategy works well in physics and chemistry, but in biology it is stymied by two problems.
In short, it's the perfect purchase or gift for those among us with bare kitchen bookshelves and larger culinary ambitions that dwell in latency, stymied by a grave--though common--psychological flaw: being unable to commit to a single technique or ethnic cuisine at a time.
The Post writes that the Department of Justice's campaign finance task force has been continually stymied by unfavorable court decisions and lack of cooperation from essential witnesses, and will soon close shop.