Word: alongism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...finance ministers, along with central-bank governors, are meeting this weekend near London to prepare for next month's summit and smooth out their differences. The summit will mark Obama's first visit to Europe since becoming President, and he will take with him a huge aura of expectation. But if leaders cannot agree on a common approach to fighting the crisis, their meeting could be nothing more than a glorified photo opportunity...
...Sweet takes a different tack. “Magnolia has a little bit more of a home-baked feel,” she said. “Our cakes are more stylized.” Sweet’s daily menu will include the requisite chocolate and vanilla cupcakes along with seasonal and specialty flavors. Forrester said that the cupcakes are baked fresh daily without stabilizers and preservatives. Vegan-friendly options will be available on Mondays and Tuesdays. Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, said she had already sampled Sweet’s offerings...
...Gray, a longtime proponent of legalization, estimates that legalizing pot and thus ceasing to arrest, prosecute and imprison nonviolent offenders could save the state $1 billion a year. "We couldn't make this drug any more available if we tried," he says. "Not only do we have those problems, along with glamorizing it by making it illegal, but we also have the crime and corruption that go along with it." He adds, "Unfortunately, every society in the history of mankind has had some form of mind-altering, sometimes addictive substances to use, to misuse, abuse or get addicted...
...relationship with the U.S. is "the most important that Japan has," Ozawa puts some daylight between himself and Washington. He told TIME: "When it comes to an exercise of military power which will be implemented or carried out by the U.S. alone, then Japan is not able to go along with the U.S. But if the international dispute settlement is to be arranged within the United Nations framework, with the cooperation of the international community, then ... Japan should be proactive in rendering support as much as possible...
...their base - and measuring the range from their base within which U.S. technology could be used to hunt them before they escape into the open sea, where they would be much more difficult to detect - are key U.S. intelligence goals. The data collected by vessels like the Impeccable, along with detailed maps of the ocean floor near the Chinese base that would guide U.S. sub hunters, are funneled into massive U.S. Navy databases that are invaluable in time of war. (The Impeccable joined three U.S. carriers in a 2007 war game in the western Pacific...