Word: exactement
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...hands helped Bush understand that a way out required accommodating both sides' sensitivities. So a few carefully chosen words ended a potentially explosive standoff. The dEnouement was crafted to exact concessions from both sides but leave each able to claim victory. China yielded on its demand that Washington take full blame and didn't force the U.S. to end its airborne surveillance. The Bush Administration used language of regret that earned charges of "national humiliation" from the Republicans' conservative ranks...
...parallel between East Timor and Aceh isn't exact. East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, enjoyed a brief period of self-determination before it was invaded and absorbed by Indonesia in 1975. It never really cohered to the country under former President Suharto, who ordered the invasion. Aceh, in contrast?like the rest of post-independence Indonesia?had been part of the former Dutch East Indies, and has since been a major contributor to the national wealth by producing billions of dollars worth of liquefied natural...
...share his exuberance at witnessing an incredibly powerful theatrical performance with some loved one unable to be in attendance. This experience was greatly heightened by the presence of a largeish woman from Rhode Island who apparently suffered from a somewhat unpleasant crossing from Paris and felt the need to exact her vengeance upon Falstaff, grumbling her woes to her companions in a valiant attempt to drown out his catechism. Leaving the event, I was sufficiently embarrassed of my natal affiliation to go so far as to pose as being, of all things, French. Clearly dire straits. Upon my return...
...hands helped Bush understand that a way out required accommodating both sides' sensitivities. So a few carefully chosen words ended a potentially explosive standoff. The dénouement was crafted to exact concessions from both sides but leave each able to claim victory. China yielded on its demand that Washington take full blame and didn't force the U.S. to end its airborne surveillance. The Bush administration used language of regret that earned charges of "national humiliation" from the Republicans' conservative ranks...
Chirality, or the exact geometric arrangement of the atoms in the nanotube, effects how electrons move through the tube. Electrons moving along the tubes are sensitive to the chirality. Since chirality cannot be controlled, the electrons act in unpredictable ways, for example bouncing back the way they came...