Word: anglo
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...concentrated in English, specializing in Anglo- and Irish-Literature, but failed the standard entrance exam for English majors on her first...
...first one begins with the rise of a member of Iran's parliament, Mohammed Mossadegh, an impassioned speaker and popular politician who had long chafed at British domination over his country's oil. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., partly owned by the British government and a predecessor of today's British Petroleum, held the concession for all of Iran. It set production rates and prices as well as Iran's token share of the proceeds. Mossadegh sought a fifty-fifty sharing agreement, which was then becoming the common arrangement between other oil-producing countries and U.S. companies. The British refused...
...year to the political parties, but Sirven quickly claimed that the amount was "very, very, very, very much higher." Why would Elf make potentially illicit payments to French politicians? Le Floch-Prigent's rationale had a touch of paranoia to it: "Elf is a French company up against the Anglo-Saxon world," he told the court. "We are David against Goliath. Our politicians had to support us everywhere. In Africa, for example, if we got into a war between Socialists and Gaullists, we wouldn't know where to go. A certain number of French politicians were capable of destabilizing...
...invert the old proverb, what comes down must go up. More than a week since the liberation of Baghdad, the military preeminence of the Anglo-American coalition in Iraq seems assured. Saddam Hussein’s regime has fallen and will never again oppress the Iraqi people. The real challenge for America, however, is not the toppling of a tinpot director—a military triumph for the mightiest army the world has ever seen was never in doubt—but the forging of a stable country in the wake of Saddam’s departure...
...Staff is right that the U.S.—and not Iraqi citizens—must pay for the rebuilding since the U.S. started the war and destroyed much of Iraq’s infrastructure. But that money must go to international—not Anglo-American—peacekeepers and contractors to help mend America’s ties to key international allies. Iraq is going to need a lot of outside attention for several years before democracy takes root, and the U.N. must be the primary governing force for the long haul