Word: blinkings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Will Bush Blink Again? Having flexed their muscles and forced George W. Bush to lift U.S. tariffs on imported steel last week, the E.U. and the World Trade Organization won't be toweling down just yet. Hailing an upturn in the economy and a better outlook for America 's steel industry, Bush said the time was right to end the 21-month-old subsidies, which violated WTO trade rules. But now U.S. trade partners are pressing for other concessions. "We have a number of disputes with the U.S. ," says Arancha Gonzalez, spokeswoman for E.U. trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy...
That, indeed, is the way this movie goes; it does not blink at the harshness of poverty, but it never gives in to the despair that hovers constantly around this family. Considine is particularly good at treading the edge between these two modes. He may occasionally surrender to brooding, but when his family is dying of the summer's heat, he finds a huge, heavy, ancient air conditioner and drags it through the streets and up the stairs to cool his loved ones...
...Libin have recommended him for nursing-home residents and dementia patients who could use a pet's love but are unable to care for the real thing. Stroke Max with an open palm or call him by name, and he will purr, turn his head, move his ears and blink his eyes. He can also sit, stretch and "sleep" but never goes looking for a litter box. INVENTOR Omron AVAILABILITY Now, for research only TO LEARN MORE robotherapy.org...
...painting its defiant stance as reckless international populism. That may be the only way left to salvage the ftaa, a pact the U.S. has long coveted as a guarantee against Latin America (today the U.S.'s second-largest export market) reverting to statist protectionism. But Lula looks unlikely to blink and is "definitely prepared to walk away" from an ftaa, says Michael Connolly, an international-trade expert at the University of Miami. Brazil's $500 billion economy is South America's largest and among the world's top 15. It has always cared more about its own trading bloc, Mercosur...
Despite a lot of similarities, crossbreeding it with pop is risky: the rottweiler is as likely to eat the fluffy little poodle as to share genetic material. Even then, the hybrid is usually brainless and sterile: see Blink...