Word: cedes
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Should we expect men to cede some control over an economy they have so thoroughly messed up? No. We have no examples of that ever having happened. What we have plenty of examples of--you can see variants of it all over the developing world--is economies in which women do all the arduous work while men sit around smoking and pontificating in coffeehouses and barbershops. For decades, policymakers have been attentive to the flaws of a patriarchal, middle-class, single-earner, nuclear-family-oriented model of family economics--and their attention remains fixed on it. Whether or not that...
...Microsoft, even the world's largest and most powerful software company can't afford to cede territory. In July, Microsoft reported its worst fiscal year since the company went public in 1986, with annual revenues from the company's flagship Windows product declining for the first time ever. In the fall, Microsoft will release a new operating system, Windows 7, to rescue the tepidly received Windows Vista...
...face fraud." That Khamenei almost instantly certified the victory of his candidate, incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dashed a central assumption about his regime: that its survival and social stability are intertwined with the legitimacy of Iran's democratic institutions. "He was willing to jettison the democratic institutions and effectively cede whatever remaining legitimacy there was in a popular vote in favor of maintaining total control," Maloney said...
...million people spread across cities and suburbs and forests and prairies; when it is compared with the colonial world of our forebears, it is harder to judge whether what unites us is greater than what divides us - or agree on just how much power we want to cede to Washington so it can fight pirates and build highways and cure cancer, and how much we prefer to keep for ourselves...
...lost $30.9 billion last year, and its share price has fallen to as low as $1.27 from a high of $35 three years ago. The company has been criticized for failing to anticipate plummeting demand for gas-guzzling SUVs and neglecting to explore energy-efficient technology, causing it to cede U.S. market share to foreign competitors such as Toyota. In particular, analysts have recently attacked Wagoner for the restructuring plans he enacted during his eight-year term as CEO, which included dozens of plant closures and thousands of worker layoffs, describing them as too little, too late. Several of Wagoner?...