Word: developable
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...When I first came to work here, I couldn’t tell a Manischewitz from a Montepulciano,” she said. “I had to develop an almost encyclopedic knowledge of wine to be taken seriously in this business...
When we give up caring about the words we utter, we forsake our conceptual accuracy as well as the capacity to successfully resist a rising tide of equivocal expressions. John Kerry is clearly a victim of this phenomenon, so far failing to develop a language of his own. Without a way of cogently expressing his worldview, Kerry is forced to unconvincingly convey his plans through terminology coined by the current administration. Little wonder that he ends up sounding confused, or rather just vague and lacking substance. Next time the media reports on abuse in the war on terror, stop...
...They’ve experienced a lot here,” he explained, “and I just hope to learn from them and further develop my own game...
...French Defense Ministry official. "But between Kosovo and Afghanistan, we have plenty to do." Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer argues passionately for an alliance presence. "All the allies realize that the international community cannot afford to lose Iraq," he says. "We can't let that country develop into a failed state." The E.U.-U.S. relationship is also being tested over NATO involvement in Iraq. Even before the Iraq war, Europe's attention was divided between NATO and the effort to build the E.U.'s own security and defense identity. For its part, the Pentagon has preferred ad hoc coalitions...
...role in Iraq, a war that many in the Alliance feel was a mistake that is now fueling terrorism? All the allies realize that whatever their differences in the run-up to the war, the international community cannot afford to lose Iraq. We can't let that country develop into a failed state. We have to support the Iraqi interim government. Commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq, and possibly Darfur, take NATO far outside its original remit. Is NATO becoming the world's peacekeeper? NATO is about collective security and collective defense. To do that, we need a huge transformation agenda...