Word: actualizations
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...before Sunday's vote, the battle between Brazil's leading presidential candidates was marked by surprisingly good manners, few personal attacks and a lack of the down-and-dirty tactics that make elections such fun to watch. That all changed in the last few days leading up to the actual vote, and now as a result, the fight is likely to get even nastier...
...nuclear program. Instead, North Korea is threatening to raise the ante by testing a nuclear weapon - a step that would finally confirm Pyongyang's February 2005 claim to have built such weapons. (Although U.S. intelligence has concluded that North Korea has sufficient fissile material to build six devices, the actual extent of its technological progress in transforming that material into working nuclear warheads remains a matter of speculation...
...date, of course, and its statement makes clear that it wants a negotiated settlement with the U.S. at the end of the day. But testing a weapon would mark the crossing of a threshold over which retreat may be difficult. Only one country has ever dismantled an arsenal of actual nuclear weapons, and that was South Africa during the early 1990s, in one of the final acts of the outgoing apartheid regime...
...We’ve been following the developments of the DSP,” said Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, Kevin Casey. “As of right now I don’t believe that we are in the actual decision-making mode. We are still in the information-gathering mode.”Casey also said the University had certain concerns as to just how helpful the new program would be. The DSP requires that foreign factories under contract with licensed producers devote at least 50 percent of their yearly output...
...firing people. I've been always very loyal to people, and loyal to a fault when somebody was starting to do the wrong things. I just let those people be in the company way too long, until the problem became bigger. I always liked somebody else to do the actual firing or letting go or having that difficult conversation, which I was never quite up to. I think the one time I actually did do it myself was when John [Reed, his co-CEO at Citi] and I decided to tell Jamie [Dimon, a Citi president and his longtime prot?...