Word: facto
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Until his wandering eye settles upon the astonishingly beautiful, much younger Consuela Castillo (Penelope Cruz, whose performance is entrancingly eager yet reserved). They enter upon an affair, which is only slightly marred by his jealousy, which is partly ex post facto (he takes an unusual interest in her previous lovers) and partly contemporary (who's that guy you're having dinner with tonight?) and by the fact that, despite age and cultural differences, she truly loves him. He prefers to concentrate on mentoring her and, speaking frankly, on her breasts, which he not unreasonably regards as the most gorgeous...
...Bush's son and current President George W. Bush - jet-lagged, no doubt, because the court they played on was in Beijing. "Bush 43" was then fresh out of Harvard Business School, and "Bush 41" was chief of the first U.S. Liaison Office in China's capital - the de facto embassy just before Beijing and Washington re-established full diplomatic relations...
...that day was his son, George W. Bush - jet lagged, no doubt, because the tennis court they played on was in Beijing. 'Bush 43' was then fresh out of the Harvard Business School, and 'Bush 41' was chief of the first United States Liason Office in Beijing - the de facto embassy that had opened after Richard Nixon's historic opening to China...
...policies by sending senior diplomats to engage Iran and hinting at a horizon for a troop withdrawal in Iraq. Hamas, already masters of the Gaza Strip, bragged recently that they could take on Fatah in the West Bank too, if not for President Abbas's movement enjoying the de facto protection of the Israelis. And Olmert's rivals also smell blood. Tzipi Livni, his Foreign Minister and rival within the Kadima Party, called once again on Tuesday for the Prime Minister to resign, and Defense Secretary Ehud Barak, leader of the Labor Party, may join the pressure for Olmert...
...case, the new law means the de facto death of the 35-hour week introduced in 1998 with great fanfare and considerable controversy by the Socialist government of the day. The measure was designed to stimulate job creation by cutting up the pie of available work into smaller pieces. Socialists claimed the creation of 350,000 new posts in its first five years; similar numbers were provided by independent economists and organizations monitoring labor activity. However, conservatives have consistently accused the law of shackling French businesses and undermining economic growth. They've also noted that state subsidies softening the impact...