Word: breaths
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...Coming in the wake of the resolution to last week's fighting in Basra, this latest move only confirms to many Sadr's breath of power and the limits of Maliki's. Three days into his poorly executed military campaign on Basra - initially commended by Washington as a decisive show of strength by the government - the Prime Minister extended by ten days a deadline for militants to lay down their arms. Now, despite what the U.S. Embassy and Coalition forces have called a successful run in Basra, Maliki appears to have eased the pressure off the Mahdi Army entirely...
...this case, ahead of suitors Australia, Norway and India. Details are a closely held secret, but the deal is expected to give Kiwis gradual relief not only from tariffs but from the red tape that bedevils their efforts to get products into Chinese stores. "Everybody is holding their breath in the fervent hope that there are no glaring holes in it," says Ferguson. "But from what I understand there should be no disappointment...
...sanguine about the surge; I had seen too many military plans promise much and deliver little. But by the end of the year, Hammadi's optimism was looking prescient. Sunni insurgents I had known for years--men who had sworn blood oaths to fight the "occupier" until their dying breath--were joining forces with the Americans to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq. The vehemently anti-American Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had agreed to a cease-fire with the U.S. military, and his ill-disciplined militia, the Mahdi Army, seemed to be keeping its end of the bargain...
...what they don't want to hear, while Clinton tells them exactly what they want to hear. (In many ways their conflicting messages mirror John McCain and Mitt Romney's blue-collar jobs debate in the run-up to the Michigan primary earlier this year.) Then, in the next breath, the hedging starts. Obama informs his audiences that some jobs can certainly be brought back, while Clinton cautions that, of course, not all jobs can be recreated. From that point on, their riffs run parallel. The two support cutting subsidies to companies that outsource jobs abroad and creating rewards...
Zimbabwe was holding its breath as the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) declared it had defeated President Robert Mugabe in this weekend's general election. Holding its breath because elections in Zimbabwe are not normal elections. By the time initial official results were announced in an early morning broadcast on Monday, the Electoral Commission said the parliamentary seats that had been counted so far were split between the M.D.C. and Mugabe's ruling party. The M.D.C. are claiming that they're leading with 60% of the votes compared to 30% for Mugabe. Reporters were told by the M.D.C...