Word: laying
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...trying to lay down an informal road map for increasing SWF transparency. At the October G-7 meeting, with support from the other participants, Washington urged SWFs to make public their annual reports, to offer detailed descriptions of their investment philosophies, and to provide assurances that good returns - and not murky foreign-policy objectives - are what's driving them. In other words, it wants the new kids on the block to be more like Norway. Oslo's Government Pension Fund - International, which invests up to 60% of its $353 billion under management in equities, has money in 3,500 companies...
...commando outfits and having them shoot at extras with special-effects helicopters flying around and have that be more insightful than what I can get off of YouTube by typing in "combat footage from Iraq." Charlie Wilson's War is about something happening in 1980. I'm going to lay claim to the fact that we actually have some distance and perspective...
...wonder good steak is hard to find: it's going extinct, along with the elderly cattle it comes from. For years I have been chasing down the secret to the ultimate steak, and I had reason to believe it lay somewhere in northern Spain. So Madrid-based food writer Pedro Espinosa agreed to meet me deep in the Basque hills surrounding San Sebastián, from where we would eat our way cross-country to El Capricho, a restaurant near the tiny town of Jiménez de Jamuz in the northwestern province of León. We knew that...
...Walker and her performers salvaged Grellong’s sometimes-ridiculous script with their comedy, exuberance, and dedication. While there were times when the performance faltered, the fault lay more with the triteness of the words themselves than with the actors’ delivery of them. Otherwise, they created an entertaining and witty performance out of the twists and turns of “Manuscript...
...celebrated early in front of the Miraflores presidential palace abandoned the party when the voting results were announced at 1 a.m., leaving a sparse crowd with long faces milling about in a sea of empty rum and beer bottles. A large inflatable bust of Chavez with his arms outstretched lay face-down and half-deflated on an empty stage. A man who looked drunk held up several soggy and torn "Yes" posters in front of a giant projection screen showing the President conceding defeat...