Word: elements
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Brown is in his element, a lame duck confounding expectations by soaring high. (Aides warn him against looking cheerful.) His critics take comfort from history: an ungrateful British public voted Churchill out of office at war's end. Still, by that logic Brown is safe until the financial turbulence subsides. For a Premier who only a month ago was staring defeat in the face, the world's economic nightmare looks like an economic miracle...
...buzz and CEB’s rising reputation. “I’m a big fan of CEB events. I hear the movie’s supposed to be really good,” Cox says. Leiter adds that the screening introduces a much-needed new element to Harvard’s social scene: “I think the College has a difficult time finding ways to entertain Harvard students; this is a good way to do that.” After the event, Schwartz echoed the satisfaction of the huge crowd: “We created...
...best predictor, the study concluded, was early childhood physical aggression. "If a child is aggressive at 2 years of age, he's more likely to be in the higher-increasing trajectory," Boivin said. "If, in addition, the mother is hostile and reactive, the prediction risk increases." Adding the third element, low socio-economic status, increases that likelihood even further...
...have to include these groups, as well as the Taliban leadership, and that is an almost inconceivable task. "The West tends to imagine a rather more coherent organization than the Taliban really is," says Joanna Nathan, Afghanistan analyst for the International Crisis Group. "They imagine there is a single element of control over a wider organization. This view that it is somehow going to be Mullah Omar sitting at one end of the table while President Karzai sits at the other as they sign a power-sharing agreement and we can all go home - that is a fantasy...
...have confidence," declared French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who hosted the meeting since France now holds the rotating presidency of the European Union. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet echoed a nearly identical message of assurance. "The force of unity that we showed today," Trichet said, "is a fundamental element of confidence...