Word: grounde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like to keep Prince Pickles in mind as Japan inches closer to revising its pacifist constitution, adopted during the American occupation after World War II. On April 13, the ruling coalition, led by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), pushed through legislation in the Diet's lower house that set ground rules for updating Japan's basic laws to reflect 21st century realities. The bill now resides in the upper house; passage could eventually lead to a national referendum on the future of the constitution's Article 9, which prohibits Japan from waging...
...with Osama bin Laden but with Mirza Ali Khan, a Pashtun holy man who revolted against the British in the late 1930s. For nearly a decade, the British army chased him and his followers through the remotest reaches of Waziristan and the Northwest Frontier Province-the same ground where allied troops have spent the past five years searching fruitlessly for bin Laden, and where the remnants of Afghanistan's Taliban fled to lick their wounds and recover their strength. The region was then, as it is today, a powder keg of fractious tribes and fundamentalist firebrands, and Britain's experience...
...Decades later, the Fakir's stomping grounds are again ground zero in a war on terror. American, NATO and Pakistani troops face a hydra-like insurgency led by a string of shadowy extremist leaders who make expert use of the border's treacherous, land mine-riddled terrain, melting into the mountains only to resurface, ever stronger, from their myriad training camps and bases. "I doubt whether Washington in 2007 knows much more about what is happening in Waziristan than London did in 1937," says Alan Warren, a military historian and author of a book on Khan. If so, as with...
...supposed to be like that," Rudd argued. "The white picket fence and all it stands for is supposed to be enhanced, not undermined, by Hayek's economic revolution." A few weeks later, Rudd was Labor leader. The lines tested on elite opinion ("a bridge too far," "reclaim the center ground") were now fed into a media machine that couldn't get enough of this smiling new man promising a new leadership style and fresh everything-ideas, vision, energy...
...sync they might have been spliced in a feedback loop. A month after the "Fork in the Road" listening tour, Rudd could reveal to 2UE's Tim Webster what Australians wanted of him: "To come up with a proposal which restores the balance, as it were, reclaims the center ground, keeping fairness alive but still building a strong economy." Doing a Kevin is contradictory. It involves looking like John. The man Rudd is trying to retire is the one he hopes voters will see in him. Howard's strengths are his conviction, discipline, competence, modesty and sobriety. He's boring...