Word: kiboshed
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...President Bush's new stance is something of a vindication for Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had been embarrassed two years ago when the President put the kibosh on Powell's suggestion that the Bush Administration would build on the agreements crafted in the Clinton era. Instead, Bush had warned shortly after taking office that North Korea could not be trusted to keep its agreements - and that, of course, has been proved true. But U.S. allies have strenuously warned Washington against piling new pressure on North Korea, which may well be the only regime left willing to raise...
...hand, Iraq's declaration was unacceptable because it had failed to account for known chemical weapons stocks; on the other, Iraq has not impeded the inspection process and the inspectors have turned up no clear evidence of continued prohibited weapons programs. Al-Baradei even put the kibosh on at least one specific charge made by Washington when he reported that aluminum tubes alleged by U.S. officials to have been imported by Iraq for use in uranium-enrichment centrifuges were, in fact, unsuitable for this purpose and had been used, as Iraq claimed, for missile-engine development...
...given the fact that most of the cities of the West Bank remain in the hands of the Israeli military and Palestinian militants there have gone underground. The coming weeks are likely to see intensified clashes in both Gaza and the West Bank, which will once again put the kibosh on the latest efforts to tamp down the level of confrontation...
...Bush put the kibosh on them even before the slowdown kicked in - too rich- skewed, and he had a bigger tax cut to sell - but he might at least consider renewing his promise to tackle them next year. This was largely a business-led boom, it's been a business-led slowdown, and it has to be a business-led recovery...
...great thing about Friday is it's the last day of August, and the last day before the three-day Labor Day weekends puts the kibosh on this turgid trading summer and brings the real money back from the Hamptons and into play. July factory orders and the Chicago Purchasing Managers' manufacturing report for August are expected to show that sector in continuing decline, though there's some hope that the trend is headed back up to zero after last week's durable goods number. Dare we look for another Friday pop? Well, on a day likely to be peppered...