Word: bents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will the federal courts view these cases? That will likely depend on where they are, and who is doing the deciding. But such split decisions are a classic recipe for intervention by the Supreme Court. The justices' conservative bent might spell trouble for gay plaintiffs, but the court's most recent decisions on gay rights have been mixed, and the presidential election could have an impact who will be beneath the robes by the times the cases are heard...
...strategy has resulted in the arrest of numerous cartel bosses and triggermen, and forced the syndicates to make costly detours on their trafficking routes. But it has also sparked a backlash: The cartels have retaliated with a new level of savagery, aided by the country's legions of bent cops, that has left a trail of hundreds of murdered police, prosecutors, politicians and civilians. The cartels "respond like this because they know we're hitting their criminal structures," Calderon insisted after Millan's killing...
...Most pollsters and political analysts predicted the defeat of the Democrats, who came under heavy fire after the formerly Serb province of Kosovo declared independence on February 17 and was recognized by most E.U. countries. During the campaign, Kostunica and the Radicals portrayed the E.U. as an evil empire bent on stealing a part of Serbia, while Tadic was labeled as traitor who was ready to sacrifice Kosovo for a distant promise of E.U. membership. The Radicals, whose chairman Vojislav Seselj is on trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, even...
Modern Turkey has looked Westward since its staunchly secular founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk decreed the separation of mosque and state shortly after World War I. The pro-Western political bent did not immediately translate into liberal economics. Corruption, cronyism and protectionism continued to cloud prospects until the 1980s. Even then, after a period of economic liberalization under reformist Prime Minister Turgut Ozal (a pal of Margaret Thatcher's), the old habits died hard. In 2001, Turkey suffered a full-blown financial crisis in which the Turkish currency lost nearly 50% of its value overnight...
...Each track tends to be quite schizophrenic, most likely the result of Madge and her collaborators each bent on making their own influence known. This is probably why the majority of the record’s tracks range from four and a half to six minutes in length, becoming not radio-ready singles but explorations of musical themes. Every time a song is about to exhaust a sound, it moves on to something completely unexpected, particularly on “Incredible,” the juicy center of “Hard Candy...