Word: approachers
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...drives her son everywhere for fear that a lone young man with an obviously Sunni first name will disappear at a checkpoint; an old man who accused the Iraqi Army of murdering his son; a shopkeeper who said children swarm around American soldiers on patrol but scatter at the approach of the Iraqi Army...
...Luxury is, of course, one of the project's characteristics," says Morawetz, "but we are adding culture to luxury. It's a completely different approach to the city...
...commercial relationship changed toward the end of the 18th century as the authority of the Mughal Empire collapsed and a new group of conservatives came into power in London, determined to expand British ascendancy. Lord Wellesley, the British Governor-General from 1798 to 1805, called his new approach the Forward Policy. Wellesley made clear that he was determined to establish British dominance over all European rivals and believed it was better pre-emptively to remove hostile Muslim regimes that presumed to resist the West's growing power...
...commercial relationship changed toward the end of the 18th century as the authority of the Mughal Empire collapsed and a new group of conservatives came into power in London, determined to expand British ascendancy. Lord Wellesley, the British Governor-General from 1798 to 1805, called his new approach the Forward Policy. Wellesley made clear that he was determined to establish British dominance over all European rivals and believed it was better pre-emptively to remove hostile Muslim regimes that presumed to resist the West's growing power...
...TIME: Can we expect to see a difference in Britain's approach to Iraq now? And would you have done anything differently...