Word: exiting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...than before. That's because the new Cabinet will be beholden not to the U.S. but to an elected Iraqi parliament. And since this body will represent the popular will, it's a good bet it will pressure the new government into populist gestures, including calling for an early exit of U.S. troops. "Even if it has the same faces, the next government will be very different from the interim administration," says al-Mahdi, who is the Finance Minister in Allawi's interim government. "The most powerful body will not be the presidency or the prime ministership or the Cabinet...
...plot imperative of both films is as simple as a shark's: one night, one setting; bad guys outside, good and bad guys in; last one not to get blown up wins. It's your basic claustrophobic nightmare, which theater and cinema have astutely exploited--from Sartre's No Exit and nearly any Pinter play or Roman Polanski movie to the old cliff-hanger serials, where the four walls of a cell would close in on our hero. Anyone under pressure has felt this contraction: the frazzled mind cowering, shrinking, as reality ruthlessly applies the clamps...
...current troop levels of both the insurgency and their own forces, U.S. commanders are not optimistic about defeating the insurgency. Indeed, the Pentagon appears to be debating a new exit strategy and has sent respected retired general Gary Luck to conduct a frank review of U.S. operations in Iraq, the premise being that things are not going well...
...that the procedure is legal it is unlikely that many states would succeed in passing outright bans. According to exit polls, only 16 percent of voters believe that abortion should be “always illegal,” and only 26 percent think it should be “mostly illegal.” Even among those in the latter category a large amount of flexibility exists. Just as pro-choice doesn’t necessarily mean pro-abortion, pro-life doesn’t have to mean categorical opposition to all pregnancy termination. A few of the states...
...Exit Argentinean police arrested the owner of a nightclub in downtown Buenos Aires after a blaze killed at least 175 and injured more than 700. Interior Minister Aníbal Fernández said that four of the disco's six doors had been wired shut, snaring the mostly young clubgoers in what he called "a mortal trap." Fernandez also warned that the death toll was likely to rise. Thousands of people, many in their teens and 20s, had packed into the Cromagnon Republic disco to celebrate the end of the school year. The Argentinean rock band Los Callejeros...