Word: inwards
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...whether the euro passes five economic tests hastily devised in the back of a Washington taxi by Brown and his chief aide Ed Balls in 1997. These range from whether business cycles and economic structures in Britain and on the Continent are converging to how joining would affect inward investment. Inherently subjective, they were really a way to buy time when the new Labour government was not yet ready to risk a referendum, and when the Conservatives were so torn about Europe that prolonging the decision just gave them more chances to implode. But time's up, and the tests...
That gets to the second reason why President Bush couldn’t build a “hegemonic” empire of subject-states: Voters wouldn’t stand for it. We Americans tend to be an inward-looking bunch, wary of expending blood and treasure on overseas adventures that are unrelated to national security. As military historian Victor Davis Hanson emphasizes, U.S. power is ultimately not restrained by “China, Russia, or the European Union, but rather by the American electorate itself—whose reluctant worries are chronicled weekly by polls that are eyed...
...office was a refugee from a medieval dungeon: an iron maiden. About two meters tall, a meter wide and just deep enough to contain a grown man, the iron sarcophagus-shaped device was worn from use; rusty three-inch nails lined the inside of its doors and walls, pointing inward; they'd lost some of their sharpness. A reporter who put the structure upright and stepped inside determined that the maiden was still capable of performing her lethal function. The device was brought to TIME's attention by a group of looters who had been stripping the compound of anything...
...door, and your name will be called when it's time for you to see the doctor. But you won't write down the reason for your appointment, and your chart, which is slipped into a pocket on the outside of the exam room door, will face inward to keep anyone in the hallway from reading...
...achieve all that Tuku says." Maybe what Mapfumo suggests would happen sooner if Zimbabweans took what Tuku says to heart. "Solving Zimbabwe's problems begins with us," says Mtukudzi, 50. "We have to help ourselves first." For him, step one is to look inward. What are Zimbabweans living and dying for? What really matters? Tuku's reputation has been built on asking and answering such questions, through parable and metaphor. Outsiders who don't have the social or political context - or fluency in Shona or Ndebele - might not understand the references in his songs. The words may even seem preachy...