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#84624 10/24/02 10:22 PM
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And time again I find words in TIME that I think are not well chosen.
In the Oct. 14 issue, in the seventh of "7 questions to pnder" p.34:
"One side argues this war could stanch terrorism, while another
argues it could breed it."Stanch" can mean "check" or "stop" but seems not as
good a choice as "check". Perhaps the most common use of "stanch"
is to stop bleeding, to stop the loss of something valuable. Surely
terrorism is not something valuable.

Please comment.


#84625 10/24/02 10:30 PM
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they're probably thinking about terrorism as oozing out, bleeding the world... it is something that should be held in, not released. just a thought. I think there were better words they might have chosen, but the blood reference is apt...



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