Word: amassed
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...global economy," says Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Dardari. But observers of the regime say Assad has been unable--or unwilling--to curb the excesses of the country's security apparatus. Though he has gradually replaced his father's Old Guard, the new faces still run fiefdoms and amass wealth through corruption in exchange for loyalty to Assad...
...Under such circumstances, meaningful discussions were impossible. But not even the supposedly unilateralist Bush Administration was willing to declare the talks finished. So Pyongyang was free to press ahead in its race to develop and amass nuclear weapons, confident that it would be able to return to "denuclearization" discussions at a time of Kim Jong Il's own choosing. North Korea finally agreed in June to go back to the table, but only after a promise of half a million tons of free rice from South Korea. And in the months leading up to the current talks, North Korea...
...then answering them. "He had it all the time," says a former colleague and fellow Rehnquist clerk, Gregory Garre. "I don't think he brought it to the supermarket, but he would have it with him in the office, and he'd bring it home at night." Roberts would amass 300 questions and answers for a major case, then stage moot-court sessions to rehearse them. Richard Garnett clerked for Rehnquist more than a decade after Roberts. "If we heard that Roberts was going to be arguing, everybody would go down to watch because he was just so good," Garnett...
...finish can be partly accredited to the fact that we’re just working with such small numbers and, compared to teams like Princeton and Cornell, we can’t amass the points that they can,” Laine added...
Kopko, an economics concentrator, eventually decided to capitalize on this apparent need. He and a few friends—in collaboration with his brother at Princeton—founded DormAid, which has managed to amass both customers and critics over the past semester...