Word: enterances
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Kofi Annan may feel like he has the raw end of the deal Wednesday. While his appointed deputy, Jayantha Dhanapala, touches down in Baghdad to head up the diplomatic posse that will enter the long-disputed presidential palaces, the secretary general embarks on a rather riskier mission: Selling the U.N. in Washington. And Annan, ever the consummate diplomat, will be making his own pointed diplomatic gesture -- by steering well clear of Capitol Hill...
When I come back the bar has morphed considerably--the kind of twenty-something banter I'm used to hearing fills the air, rising over the din of loud rock music. As I enter, a bouncer asks me to show some identification, and I flash my Harvard I.D. But he's not satisfied with that, so I fish out my New York State driver's license and hand it over to him, in the process exposing my expired, under-21 license. The guy notices the old I.D., and asks to have a peek at it as well. Finally, only after...
McCarthy suggested the possibility that officers must manually enter the starting and ending times for each log printout...
Instead of disbanding, the U.N. redoubled its effort to find hidden documents and weapons, creating a "counterconcealment team," headed by former U.S. Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter. At one point, when Ritter and his team tried to enter an SSO facility in downtown Baghdad, a guard pointed a loaded gun at his head and prepared to fire. In the end Ritter, who spoke in depth for the first time about his work to CNN, did his job too well: he was accused of being a CIA spy and denied access to sensitive sites...
Officials say accuracy, not parsimony, is the goal. "Consumption patterns change," notes BLS commissioner Katharine Abraham. "New products enter the market. Old ones are modified or disappear. The market basket of today is totally different from that of a generation ago." There is a gold lining of sorts. The overstated inflation rate has kept interest rates unduly high because lenders account for inflation in setting rates. Allen Sinai of Primark Decision Economics believes that even with the changes, the CPI may be a full point too high. "Effectively, there is no inflation," he says. Now the government is making...