Word: eastern
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...Monday, McDonald's confirmed earlier press reports that it will spend about $1.1 billion - more than half its total global investment funding in 2009 - to revamp scores of existing restaurants in Europe and open 240 new ones there. That effort will not only focus on relatively new markets in Eastern Europe like Russia and Poland, but also sink roots deeper in West European nations like Italy, Spain and France - generating about 12,000 badly needed new jobs in the process. As part of that expansion plan, McDonald's says it will add about 400 new McCaf...
...grace. The same can be said of the rest of the cast of well-schooled Boston Ballet youngsters on whom the ballet rests. The Battle of the Toy Soldiers and Mice was inventively choreographed by Daniel Pelzig. The large mice and growing Christmas tree were familiar; the Middle Eastern Mouse King who fancies dancing the Trepak, on the other hand, is an original character. But all’s well that ends well—the Mouse King is killed and the Nutcracker prevails. He takes Clara to the Enchanted Forest ruled by the Snow Queen and King, danced...
...take many of the detainees, it will fall to the Justice Department to decide where the rest of them will be held and tried. Since 9/11, federal courts have convicted 145 people on international terrorism charges vs. just two convictions from Guantánamo's military commissions. The eastern district of Virginia and southern district of New York have a great deal of experience with terrorism trials...
Michaël Zenevre, general manager of AGCP, a 14-employee advertising and marketing company located near the city of Nancy in North-Eastern France, agrees. Zenevre says he doesn't plan on dumping the 35-hour arrangement anytime soon even though the shorter week initially hurt his and other companies financially and required long and often acrimonious negotiation with workers...
...reflects a serious commitment by the new administration to addressing the Arab-Israeli crisis. He has real negotiating experience in Northern Ireland and the Middle East and he understands the requirements of both sides." - Aaron David Miller, a U.S. negotiator steeped in Middle Eastern diplomacy, on Mitchell's appointment...