Word: gardener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bush raised the rhetorical temperature several degrees in his statement. "Russia's ongoing action raised serious questions about its intentions in Georgia and the region," Bush said in a Rose Garden announcement Wednesday. In a veiled threat of isolating Russia from the World Trade Organization, the G-8 and the NATO consultative relationship it has held for more than a decade, Bush said Russia was "putting its aspirations [of international integration] at risk...
...announcement after a morning of "rolling meetings" with national security advisers. These started at 8 a.m. with his daily intelligence briefing, which became a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC). Bush spoke to French President Nicolas Sarkozy at 10 a.m., then made his announcement in the Rose Garden at 11:10 a.m. The plan had been for Rice to announce the humanitarian mission at 10:30 a.m. But Bush and his advisers apparently decided that the President himself needed to deliver a more forceful American response to Russia. "The situation on the ground changed," NSC spokesman Gordon Johndroe said...
...formal name of the palace, built in 1740 and recently restored, translates as the Garden of the Palace of Established Happiness, its choice an elegant if subtle acknowledgement that the Americans present had contributed to this extraordinary moment in China's long history. Henry Kissinger, the architect of the opening to China in 1972, was there. So, too, was former President George H.W. Bush, who took considerable political risks at home to rebuild Sino-American relations in the wake of Tiananmen Square. And also Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former chief executive of AIG and one of the earliest and most...
...pity that your "Brief History of: Un-Retirement" focused on sports stars [July 28]. Otherwise, it might have mentioned the celebrated case of soprano Dame Nellie Melba. The phrase "More farewells than Nellie Melba" still has currency in her native Australia. After her official farewell at London's Covent Garden in 1926, she returned to Australia two years later to sing farewell in Sydney and, over the next few months, Melbourne, Geelong, and finally Adelaide. No matter whether the arena is sporting, theatrical or musical, no one can really be said to have "done a Melba" who hasn't resurrected...
...California banned trans fats, so it's tempting to blame its demise on an antiobesity backlash. But fast-food joints are doing fine. The real problem is that middle-class families are struggling, and food prices are soaring. In good times, a trip to the local Outback or Olive Garden could be part of the family routine; with gas prices near $4 a gallon, it's become a special occasion...