Word: dint
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...Wall Street, of course, has developed a well-deserved reputation for rustling up rallies (or tech-stock bubbles) by dint of sheer will and optimism, only to sag mournfully when reality refuses to cooperate. Investors tried this trick before, pushing the Dow above 10,000 in December and January on hopeful corporate and economic news - only to run into Enronitis. Now they're back at it, and even if the next few sessions take some of the steam out - there's always profit-taking and second-guessing, even when herd is celebrating - the cries of "bottom," for the economy...
...from 2 seats to 86. Still, Vajpayee has to govern the world's biggest democracy, a self-consciously secular nation with some 150 million Muslim citizens, and as a result has always been careful to distance himself from the more extremist elements of Hindu nationalism. Today he rules by dint of a broad coalition of regional parties whose governing accord expressly precludes him from promoting the Ayodhya issue. Unless he's seen as coming down hard on any provocation over the temple issue, his coalition partners could bolt and remove him from power. And Vajpayee's international efforts to project...
...Like it or not, the U.S. is already involved, by dint of the alliances made in the course of its campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda. Warlords who worked with the Americans benefited immensely in terms of cash, equipment, and often also air support and special forces advisers. Naturally, that strengthened their position against rivals, some of whom have begun making alliances of convenience with America's enemies and others who remain independent but increasingly hostile to the U.S. and its local allies. The CIA has reportedly warned the U.S. government that the danger is mounting of a renewed...
When the couturier Christian Dior died suddenly of a heart attack at 57, a jittery, bespectacled Algerian-born 21-year-old had to put the Dior show together. He came up with the trapeze, a dress that by dint of its intricate silk, tulle and horsehair-hemmed organza underskirts seemed to float away from the body as if by magnetic force. It was a sensation. The fashion press, not given to understatement even in 1958, proclaimed, "Yves Saint Laurent has saved France." A new design legend had arrived...
...were “masters’ houses” within which ethnic studies occupied the maid’s quarters 30 years ago. Now, she said, ethnic studies is a “misunderstood and unwelcome guest” in the guest bedroom, a position gained only by dint of student unrest...