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Editorial: A Pointless Partisan Fight

The clash over Justice Department documents in an investigation of a botched gunrunning sting could and should have been avoided.

Distaste for Health Care Law Reflects Spending on Ads

By ABBY GOODNOUGH

About $235 million has gone to advertisements attacking the law, which most Americans want overturned, and $69 million to ads supporting it.

SAC's Cohen Is Going to Davos: Steven A. Cohen, the founder of SAC Capital who is known for his distaste for the spotlight, will take his place among the world's rich and powerful at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, next week.

For China, Iran uranium plant no game changer
Reuters
By Emma Graham-Harrison - Analysis BEIJING (Reuters) - China's distaste for sanctions and appetite for Iran's oil may hamper Western efforts to ramp up ...


Rupert Murdoch is pointing a gun to Google's head, and Microsoft is helping him pull back the trigger. For the past few weeks, Murdoch and his officers at News Corp. have been very vocal about their distaste for Google and their desire to lead other media companies in a boycott of sorts.

 distaste
 (dĭs-tāst')
n.
Dislike or aversion.

tr.v. Archaic, -tast·ed, -tast·ing, -tastes.

1. To feel repugnance for; dislike.
2. To offend; displease.

gunrunner
(gŭn'rŭn'ər)
n.
One that smuggles firearms and ammunition.

gunrunning gun'run'ning n.



 sting

Slang. A complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care, especially an operation organized and implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals.