Word: angela
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...Indians present - this was the second year running that they provided a huge contingent, and threw some of the best parties, too - had the sort of confidence that comes from knowing that their domestic market is going to continue to grow. The European one won't. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in her second year already something of a Davos star, spoke of the end of a "Eurocentric" view of the world, but most leaders I talked to thought that European public opinion was still woefully ignorant of the ways in which the old Continent's influence may shrink...
...missing his ride from class. When he arrived, Diana had already phoned the police. "I was crying my heart out. A child has to be home at a certain time," Diana recalled. Even before nightfall, when radio rhythms are punctuated by gunshots, children cannot play outside. A neighbor child, Angela Grant, 6, has never once frolicked in the play area by her apartment building because fighting frequently breaks out there. "She knows," says her mother, Sonja Grant, 26, "that she's never going across that battlefield...
...TIME: Foreign affairs closer to home must be causing you concern: Your party tore itself apart over the European Union, and now the nightmare is returning, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel trying to revive the EU constitution. David Cameron: It shouldn't be a difficult issue for our party because it's an issue on which the Conservative Party now has a settled view, which is that we want to be in the European Union, but we want a flexible, open, trading union and we are opposed to further integration of the European Union. And it's a position that...
...moment, these risks seem manageable. Central banks, especially in Europe, have been raising rates to head off inflation. And there are several initiatives underway between Europe and the U.S. that aim to counteract protectionist pressures at home and abroad. German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Washington this month to push a plan that would harmonize investment and trade rules across the Atlantic. And the European Union and the U.S. recently got back together in a new and perhaps final attempt to salvage the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of negotiations. "We are in the endgame," says Peter Mandelson...
...past five years. Now the Belarussians' illegal tapping of tens of thousands of tons of oil had forced Moscow to shut down the pipeline that runs through Belarus - inconveniencing not just Russian oil companies but their energy-hungry customers farther to the west, including Germany and Poland. [German Chancellor Angela Merkel today criticized both Moscow and Minsk for what she called "unacceptable" behavior. Germany gets a fifth of its oil imports through the so-called Friendship pipeline in question...