Word: barings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jiabao praised SEPA at a meeting of senior officials, saying he was pleased to see it "getting down to business." In the end, however, it's unlikely SEPA will be able to hold up construction once the assessments are complete, even though such support has helped the agency bare its teeth. Much more will be needed to ensure that it can really use them...
...should expect the insurgents to throw their worst at us, and judging from their previous conduct we can expect the week of elections to be violent and bloody. As hard as it will be to bare any additional American casualties, we should not despair. We can, and I believe will, prevail in Iraq but only if we fortify ourselves and realize that next week might very likely be the most destabilized time seen since the end of major combat operations. Changing a country from a totalitarian dictatorship to a democracy is a radical step, and the first election will...
...more like a man from the future. While his white opponents stood and slugged in the style of the bare-knuckle era, he weaved the way Muhammad Ali would later do. Outside the ring, the handsome, savvy and charismatic Johnson prefigured today's celebrity athletes (and polarizing black stars like Kobe Bryant and Mike Tyson). He wore tailored suits, drove custom cars and slept with many women, white women in particular. His boxing wins drew death threats and caused riots, but it was his sex life that most outraged whites, and many blacks. In 1913 he was tried under...
Some Barkett enthusiasts even spelled her name in teal capital letters on their bare chests...
...Koppes, a former CalPERS general counsel, delivered a blunt message. "Your friends think you're unfocused and too political," Koppes said. "They say you're beginning to damage the corporate-governance movement." CalPERS president Sean Harrigan, a grocery workers' union boss and an architect of the institutional investor's bare-knuckle strategy, got a more pointed message two weeks ago from the state personnel board he represented at CalPERS: it replaced him with Republican real estate developer Ronald Alvarado...