Word: dimitry
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...holding operation at home and abroad," says Dimitri Simes, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "His stated purpose is stability," agrees a State Department expert, "but the situation is likely to get worse. We have to be prepared for an expanding cycle of repression...
...fact, there is evidence to the contrary. According to Dimitri Christakis, codirector of the Child Health Institute at the University of Washington, "The more TV babies watch, the more likely they are to have attentional problems later in life." Christakis cites a long-term study that tracked children from age 1 through age 7. It found that for each additional hour of daily TV viewing before age 3, a child's chances of later developing problems paying attention increased...
Taken together, the positive forces have created what Economist Dimitri Balatsos of the Kidder Peabody investment firm has called a "virtuous cycle." This cycle is a mirror image of the vicious spiral of the 1970s, when soaring oil prices and roaring inflation created rising unemployment, slumping stock prices and economic stagnation. Now things are going the other way. Exults Barton Biggs, chief portfolio strategist for the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "It's like watching the movie of the 1970s run backwards...
...Arab. Local members want control of the Church so that one of their own can tend to the community's spiritual needs, but also to prevent what they see as the sale of their patrimony to the Israeli enemy. "The Greek Orthodox Church is led by foreigners," says Dimitri Diliani, a Palestinian Orthodox Christian leading the campaign against Eirinaios. "They make personal profit and don't work in the best interests of the Christian community." This week, senior clerics in Jerusalem are expected to elect a provisional leader to administer the Patriarchate until elections for a new Orthodox prelate...
...August Manager Dimitri Tragos added that the weakness of the dollar had also been helping sales since it made his goods cheaper for foreigners...