Word: act
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...leave this country? Pack up and leave Afghanistan? Take their money away, take their troops away? Then what? Will we be better off? I came to power when there was no government, no institutions, no laws. Six years on, it's not like that. The overall situation is: we act and defend and bring offenders to justice and put them in jail. Even government offenders...
...economy. In a note to clients, Commerzbank analyst Michael Ganske wrote: "The strong macroeconomic story of the country is increasingly obscured by homemade negative headlines and developments that clearly worsen the economic outlook for Russia." Ganske went so far as to call the Georgia war "a bloody next act in a screenplay that could be named 'how to destroy the investment story of one of the strongest credits in the emerging-markets universe...
...waters rise to the height of a person, the Robertses act as a citizens' National Guard, a more caring and effective FEMA. They take elderly friends to their attic, share food with them, give them comfort. Outside, a neighbor, Larry Simms, stands shoulder-deep in the water, looking for people to save. And all the while, Kim keeps recording, giving witness to nature's fury and the government's indifference...
...Jonas Brothers--three adorable haircuts related by birth and a willingness to appear on any talk show that will have them--are the latest teen act to attempt to transcend cuteness and achieve a measure of credibility with people who have no interest in taking them to the prom. Every time a band tries this, someone at its record company invariably mentions the early-'60s Beatles--it could happen!--but that only serves to reinforce how long the odds are, and the Jonas Brothers have already made it tough on themselves. There is the fact that all three brothers wear...
...recent weeks of how Chinese expressing even mild dissent have been jailed, intimidated, forced to leave Beijing or barred from coming to the capital for the Games. When the Games were awarded to China in 2001, the International Olympic Committee and some Chinese officials argued that they would act as a force for openness. But both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have published reports in the weeks leading up to the Games arguing persuasively that they've had the opposite effect. The forcible suppression of dissent and the jailing of activists has worsened significantly, they and other groups report...