Word: democratization
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...mistake Aliyev for a democrat. Though he acts like a political opponent, Aliyev can behave in crass and self-serving ways. Last September, before he opposed his father-in-law's new powers, Aliyev suggested that Kazakhstan become a hereditary monarchy - perhaps, say observers, to try to restore relations with Nazarbayev but also to set up Aliyev's own son Nuralli as eventual sultan of a new kingdom...
...center's construction will cost at least $600 million and is at least three years behind schedule. It is now supposed to be finished by September 2008, but even that date will likely be pushed back. "This is a beautiful disaster," says Rep. Deborah Wasserman Schulz , a Florida Democrat and the chair of an ongoing House hearing on the center's progress. Quips Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican who also chaired the hearings until 2004, "We will have Iraq figured out before the center is finished...
...think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this Administration has been the worst in history.' JIMMY CARTER, former U.S. President, in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, sparking a hubbub in which a White House representative shot back that Carter is becoming "increasingly irrelevant." Carter later said he was only comparing George W. Bush's foreign policy with that of Richard Nixon, which he called "good and productive...
JIMMY CARTER, former U.S. President, in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, sparking a hubbub in which a White House representative shot back that Carter is becoming "increasingly irrelevant...
Sources: BBC; Washington Post; AP; Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; MSNBC; USA Today