Word: bitters
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...Ahmed's anti-corruption campaign. More than 150 senior politicians, public servants and businessmen have been charged so far, including former Prime Minister Zia, who government prosecutors have ordered to appear before a court by late August over tax evasion allegations. Both Hasina and Zia, bitter rivals who have alternated in power over the past decade and a half, complain that the charges are designed to permanently sideline them from political life...
...region is flush with surpluses, not deficits. Asian countries have piled up more than $3 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves. And while currencies were overvalued a decade ago, they are undervalued today. The bitter fight between Beijing and Washington over China's massive surplus and undervalued currency is just the most visible part of this phenomenon. With the numbers the region is racking up, no currency trader would bet her Starbucks latte against Asian economies, let alone put real money into attacking Asian currencies. Banks around the region have been cleaned up. The fanciful projects of a decade ago-such...
...they leave Washington, the Johnsons will have entertained 200 state visitors, more than any other Administration. A shrewd businesswoman, Mrs. Johnson also brought to such events a notable warmth. On one memorable occasion, her calm dignity soothed a White House women's gathering after Eartha Kitt delivered a bitter anti-Administration protest. Elaborate state dinners often wound up with the liveliest late-hour dancing in official memory. What with the engagements and weddings of Daughters Lynda Bird Robb and Luci Nugent, and then the birth of Grandchildren Lyn and Lucinda, the family quarters and public rooms have rarely...
...opposition in 1994 until his resignation four years ago. Edited down from over 2 million words to 350,000 and with passages excised that Campbell feared could breach the Official Secrets Act or undermine Gordon Brown's government (Campbell admits to pruning accounts of the TB-GBs, as the bitter spats between the former and current Premier were known), the diaries are still the most substantial inside account yet to emerge from Blair's inner circle. Some of Campbell's revelations are unexpected. Royal biographers have mined for new material on Princess Diana for years. Campbell casually reveals a trove...
...That interaction, and the politicization of the government information machine under Campbell, goes to the heart of his darkest period. Campbell's bitter dispute with the BBC after its correspondent Andrew Gilligan said in 2003 that Campbell had "sexed up" a government dossier about Saddam Hussein's weapons capability still occludes his achievements. The row claimed several scalps at the BBC, including Gilligan's and the broadcaster's top two bosses. The government scientist David Kelly, unmasked as Gilligan's source, took his own life. "Campbell won his battle with the BBC," says veteran journalist turned p.r. man Michael Prescott...