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...initiative "will have a component of dialogue with the aim of understanding where each of us is coming from, and also a social component to build interpersonal relationships," Beller said...
...carbon copy" Harvard's architecture from the late '70s to the late '90s could be described as architecturally unchallenging, Levitan says. The attitude of the administration at the time, he says, was to promote consensus--an aim reflected in the architecture of the time...
American officials seem confident Kostunica would at least aim for stability and search for political solutions to Balkan conflicts rather than excite ethnic terror. They think he is making the right moves during this dicey period, pursuing legal appeals to confirm the vote as well as calling for peaceful civil disobedience to shut the country down and force a reckoning on Milosevic. While Kostunica insists that he won't stand in the regime's planned runoff, he remains reluctant to hand Milosevic an uncontested victory. The U.S. and Europe encouragingly promise to lift economic sanctions on Yugoslavia and dish...
...mifepristone's defenders counter that carrying a baby to term is six times as dangerous as ending a pregnancy, whether surgically or medically. There are certainly risks if women were to use the drug without adequate supervision, but the FDA guidelines aim to limit that possibility: a patient will receive written instructions on taking the pills, and must sign a statement swearing that she has read them and that she will agree to a surgical abortion if the medication fails...
...trying to invest around the weak euro, avoid companies with extensive operations abroad. Those tend to be consumer-product giants like Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble, typically thought to be defensive investments. Tech stocks fall into the same trap. Even those without European operations aim to benefit from business there. Your salvation may be in oil, natural gas and electric utilities. Although they've run up, these stocks look best from a risk-reward point of view...