Word: defeat
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...real as a cartoon fantasy gets, Po is a clumsy doofus, for whom rising from a supine position can take all morning. He has the doughy shape, the domineering amiability and, ultimately, the demented perseverance of an ursine Michael Moore. And Po's job is not to defeat mythical miscreants but to be a waiter in the village noodle shop run by his father (James Hong) - who happens to be a goose, but never mind...
...International Development (USAID) and now a professor of international development at Georgetown University. A more flexible approach could dramatically improve the world's ability to feed itself. As proof, Natsios cites a USAID project that sent Afghan farmers a genetically modified wheat strain immediately after the Taliban's defeat in 2002, resulting in a massive harvest that year. "Farmers told me it was a miracle of Allah," he says...
Clinton was next, in a Manhattan gym several stories underground, where even cell phones died. A Clinton hasn't given a concession speech since 1980, so anyone looking for an acknowledgment of defeat was hunting for teacups at the hardware store. She congratulated Obama on the race he had run without noting that he'd won it, and called every vote for her "a prayer for the nation," as though she alone could answer...
...Switzerland A Defeat for the Far Right Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected a June 1 initiative that would have stiffened the country's already rigid naturalization process and have allowed townspeople to vote by secret ballot on whether to grant citizenship to their neighbors. The failure is a blow to the right-wing Swiss People's Party, which rode a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment to a plurality in parliament. About 22% of Swiss residents are foreigners--one of the highest rates in Europe--and the party exploited rising xenophobia in its referendum campaign with ads depicting dark hands snatching Swiss...
...doesn't come naturally, in other words. So anyone looking to Hillary Clinton for a comfortable acknowledgment of defeat was hunting for teacups at the hardware store...