Word: backyarders
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...have sunk America's foundering influence in the region. Instead, when Bush arrives in the Yucatán on March 12 for a summit with Calderón to discuss the hemispheric issue most urgent to the U.S.--illegal immigration--his host will be a rare ideological soulmate in America's backyard...
...even Bush knows he can't simply ignore what's fueling that kind of negative feedback. So the question that hovers over the trip is whether Bush and Washington have finally learned to address all that anger in their own backyard. That resentment stems from both a widespread feeling that Bush - who came to office pledging to be Latin America's mejor amigo - instead essentially abandoned the region when it refused to line up behind his Iraq invasion, and a just as pervasive belief that Washington-backed capitalist reforms have helped widen the region's gap between rich and poor...
...issues. Growing up was difficult with two girls constantly ganging up on me and forcing me to play the board games “Mall Madness” and “Pretty Pretty Princess” while all I wanted to do was go in my backyard and try to get bugs to fight in a jar. Like most siblings, we soon became very competitive with each other and constantly fought over life-altering issues, such as who would suffer the unfortunate experience of sitting in the middle seat of the car or get the privilege of eating...
Nunn and his teams decided a comprehensive mine-to-magazine approach was needed, and they found a blueprint in their own backyard in South Africa at the De Beers diamond company. Several current best-selling books look at how trends are spawned and spread, and debate continues over whether one could completely engineer the next Big Thing. The answer is yes: De Beers...
...dreamt about it. You remember the countless afternoons spent in the backyard playing out that defining moment. The moment when the spotlight shines solely on you. That singular instance where you realize that you, after the many hours of work and dedication, finally made it. And now, as your mouth is too numb to speak and the joy sets upon you, your index finger, raised high into the air, expresses all that needs to be said...“We’re number...