Word: bitten
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...clear, but other EU members overcame similar differences upon their accession. Nothing is more inconsistent with the idea of Serbian nationalism than the idea that Serbs cannot do the same.It is true that the EU has its own problems to deal with. Many believe that the union has already bitten off more than it can chew with the accession of 12 new countries since 2004. The death of its Constitution for Europe has also paralyzed progress for the traditional bureaucratic juggernaut. Nevertheless, in a dynamic and interconnected world, the EU cannot turn a blind eye to an international crisis. Because...
...were asked to guess John Andreas' profession, the words "fine-art auctioneer" would probably not come to mind. There's no bespoke suit or Etonian comportment. Instead, the burly Andreas sports cheap slacks, an off-the-rack polyester shirt and the mercantile mannerisms of a hard-bitten trader. Yet the former Indonesian shipping agent happens to be the founder and CEO of Borobudur Auction; in October his four-year-old company fetched $6.89 million at a Singapore sale of contemporary and modern Southeast Asian art. The figure was just $200,000 less than the highest figure taken at similar sales...
...barely a debate at all. On the Democratic side, the arcane issue of whether illegals should be able to get a driver's license has bitten both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. On the Republican side, the candidates take turns accusing one another of committing some act of human decency toward illegals, and indignantly denying that they did any such thing. Immigration has long divided both parties, with advocates and opponents in each. Among Republicans, support for immigration was economic (corporations), while opposition was cultural (nativists). Among Democrats, it was the reverse: support for immigration was cultural (ethnic groups), while...
...invincible Germany!" intoned Schiffgens, the self-styled Raja of Germany. The flap those words created, with their echoes of the Third Reich, reveals both the deadly seriousness with which Germans view their wartime past and the gulf separating Lynch's new-age agenda from that of some hard-bitten Berliners with a more historical mind...
...household name and sought-after employer. "We're competing against IBM and Dell and brands that are already huge out here," he says. "Everyone wants to show their families they work for a big name." Recruiting at top Chinese universities, Leonhardt would show the swoosh and the bitten apple, logos the students readily recognize as Nike's and Apple's. "But when I showed them the red bull's-eye--silence," he says. He compensates by showing them Target's rank in the Fortune 500 (33rd...