Word: casting
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...rich nations and have been generally reluctant to take on any carbon-cutting obligations - long enough to lay down a rough outline of how negotiations, including the talks at Poznan, should proceed. The end goal is an actual agreement at the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, which has been cast as a de facto deadline for a new, hopefully more globally comprehensive Kyoto Protocol. (See the Top 10 green ideas of the year...
...many students, the first experience is one of rejection,” Naddaff said. “This is absolutely the wrong message to be giving.”One solution that Naddaff recommended to avoid the pitfalls of rejection is encouraging students to “cast their net more broadly” and apply to more seminars.Another idea on the table, also proposed by Naddaff, is that students who applied and were rejected in the fall receive first priority in the spring.Though the program’s traditional base in the humanities and social sciences has been expanded...
...Challenged at Lancaster House to explain Merkel's absence, Brown insisted the meeting had always been conceived with a limited cast. The message was reinforced by a Downing Street spokesman who briefed that the meeting was not a "summit" but just a "round-table discussion," although that spin effort was undermined by the words "Global Europe Summit" emblazoned on security passes for the event...
This situation, the play reminds us again and again, is not just black-and-white. “Nobody is on nobody’s side,” the cast repeatedly sings. Too bad the audience can foresee the plot’s moves several steps ahead...
...cast members slide around the checkered stage like pieces on a chessboard, they never make an exciting gambit. Chess may be more than a board game, but this musical is little more than an average college production...