Word: blunts
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...TIME: You've done a series of recent partnerships with eBay, MySpace, MTV and others. What's driving these deals? Schmidt: Toward the beginning of the year, we recognized that we needed to get good at partnerships. I'm just going to try to be blunt here. It had not been a core part of how we were trying to run the company. So we tried to pick partners that represented different initiatives that we wanted to work with for a long time...
...verbal stick. He recently told the Los Angeles Times that the Chinese government's goal of achieving about 230 pollution-free days a year in Beijing in time for the 2008 Olympics was merely propaganda intended to lull the public into thinking the air is getting cleaner. Equally blunt, he says China's plans to build scores of nuclear reactors without local consultation are "irrational and undemocratic...
...piece of the Sakhalin projects; in a speech, deputy director Aleksandr Ananenkov laid out a broad vision for that company to link oil fields in eastern Siberia with the Sakhalin project to create one vast network. The affected oil firms have reacted guardedly, but others have been blunt in their criticism - most notably Shinzo Abe, Japan's next Prime Minister. The Sakhalin projects are supposed to become a major source of liquefied natural gas for Japan, and two Japanese companies are Shell's partners. "I am concerned that major delays might have a negative influence on overall Japanese-Russian relations...
...Republicans desperately need to turn out for the congressional midterm elections less than two months away. And Musharraf, promoting his memoir to be published next week, has to placate even more dangerous political enemies at home who have tried several times to assassinate him. But both men's blunt remarks sent their diplomatic minders scrambling...
AHMADINEJAD: Today nuclear weapons are a blunt instrument. We don't have any problems with Pakistan or India. Actually they are friends of Iran, and throughout history they have been friends. The Zionist regime is not capable of using nuclear weapons. Problems cannot be solved through bombs. Bombs are of little use today. We need logic...