Word: dealing
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...struggling to make a dent in crippling unemployment, Roosevelt had come around to Keynes' advice. It worked: massive New Deal and World War II outlays pushed unemployment down from nearly...
...largest democracies to an unprecedented degree after decades of Cold War estrangement. Singh faced opposition at home from parties skeptical of close ties with the U.S., but staked his political reputation on the growing relationship - his government was almost deposed by parties of the left protesting a nuclear-technology deal he concluded with the Bush Administration. (See pictures of Barack Obama visiting Asia...
...there's room enough for both India and China to peacefully emerge as world powers, and Singh has made no complaints about the change in atmosphere in Washington. His visit, he insists, is simply an opportunity "to renew the partnership." It'll look to formalize elements of the nuclear deal penned last year, which grants India access to a range of technologies that it had previously been blocked from acquiring. Measures will also be taken to expand trade, promote educational links and boost cooperation on research into vaccines. The two sides are also expected to sound the right notes...
...Ironically, however, one reason among others for Iran's reversal after initially approving the deal was that Green Movement leaders had criticized it. Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the opposition candidate who claims to have won the disputed election, criticized the proposal negotiated by Ahmadinejad's team at Vienna, warning that if implemented, it would negate the work of thousands of Iranian scientists. Opposition figures and analysts say his response was merely an attempt to play spoiler and prevent the regime from benefiting politically from a deal with the West. Still, nuclear diplomacy with the West has effectively become a political football...
...protesters gathered Monday morning to voice their anger over plans to build an incinerator to deal with the rising amounts of trash produced by Guangzhou's Panyu district, whose 2.5 million residents are expected to generate 2,200 tons of garbage a day by next year, a local official told the state-run China Daily newspaper. A site for an incinerator to replace two overtaxed landfills was proposed in 2006, but residents say they weren't informed about the plans until this fall. In one survey cited by China Daily, 92% of residents thought the incinerator would harm their health...