Word: drift
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...Bangladesh's drift toward mayhem threatens to undo several decades of solid progress made by one of the world's poorest countries. Thanks to a slew of innovative ngos and a committed cadre of government social-welfare workers, the nation has achieved impressive gains in fighting poverty and slowing the growth of its population. A thriving textile-export industry fills American supermarkets with made-in-Bangladesh T shirts and sweaters, and many Bangladeshi millionaire textile exporters drive about the streets of Dhaka in new Mercedes-Benz. But for all its achievements, the country has also seemed like a political experiment...
...avoid conflict. "Money is such a loaded issue, many couples don't have the communication skills to talk about it," says Ellyn Bader, co-founder of the Couples Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. But if you never engage your husband in frank discussions about the budget, you may drift further apart, she warns. "I see lots of premature divorces among couples who keep things so toned down that eventually the relationship feels empty...
...played Moses, Lenin, Simon Wiesenthal and Anne Frank's father Otto in TV movies, and won two Oscar nods for playing gangsters - Meyer Lansky in Bugsy (1991) and, a decade later, Sexy Beast's Don Logan, the Cockney-accented human incarnation of rage. "It is archetypes that I drift toward as an actor," Kingsley says. Almost all of them are touched by tragedy, including his upcoming role opposite Annette Bening in Mrs. Harris, the true story of the philandering Scarsdale-diet inventor Herman Tarnower, who was killed by a jilted lover in 1980. Attention-grabbing roles are now his routine...
...could offer a plausible motive for kidnapping. Rybkin was never a threat to Putin's chances of re-election, but his allegations do underline a problem for the President. Putin will almost certainly win by a landslide in March, but the West is concerned about his apparent drift toward authoritarianism, and the Rybkin affair won't help. It once again raises the prospect that, with or without the President's knowledge, his men might be up to their old tricks...
...about 600,000 people have signed up at the campaign's website. Even if all of them were active in the campaign, they would constitute a support base about the size of the population of Vermont. In the meantime, the political establishment has no intention of letting Dean supporters drift away. Representatives from the Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) have visited the Dean campaign to hear its ideas and on their own have started blogs, Meetups and special drives to solicit small donations. "They're already on top of it, and that's the first time I've seen the D.N.C...