Word: abroader
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...which conversely are running bulging trade and current-account surpluses. Put another way: while the U.S. has been busy consuming (and borrowing heavily to do so), Asia?and China in particular?has been investing in factories and technologies so it can produce even more goods and services to sell abroad...
...President. The hung parliament has hampered policymaking, but the brothers' combativeness has kept the political pot boiling. They've picked their biggest fight with Balcerowicz, the polarizing symbol of post-communist economic reforms that have resulted in 40% growth in gdp since 1989 - but also 18% unemployment. Widely respected abroad, Balcerowicz has stood up for the independence of the central bank and also for Europe-wide merger rules. So when he opposed what he saw as an attempt by the ruling party to block a planned merger of Polish branches of the Italian banking giant UniCredit earlier this year...
...just what is your job? I try to put in one sentence what I think our job is about. And what I say is that our job is to effectively integrate foreign, military and domestic intelligence in defense of the homeland and of U.S. interests abroad...
...Hour. But one event alone occupied the major attention of the U.S. in 1952. When General Eisenhower, an authentic hero both at home and abroad, resigned his job as head of NATO's armies to enter the U.S. political arena, many innocent Europeans (as well as many informed Americans) took it for granted that he had been appointed 1952's Man of Destiny, almost by acclamation...
...consulted, to encourage and to warn" the government of the day, but it is one Elizabeth II never exercises in public (unlike her opinionated son Charles). Yet she still derives power from her twin roles as head of state - the one who opens and dissolves Parliament, makes splashy visits abroad and hosts dinners for foreign leaders - and head of nation, a focus for British unity and identity, rewarder of excellence, a visible oasis of continuity in an accelerating world, even as Prime Ministers (she's had 10) come and go. A clutch of other symbolic roles - Head of the Commonwealth...