Word: leveler
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...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has made climate change one of his top priorities, it was time to raise the stakes. On Sept. 22, Ban held a high-level conference on climate change at U.N. headquarters that included Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao. With less than 70 days remaining before the Copenhagen summit begins, the message was unusually clear: There is no more time to waste. "The world's glaciers are now melting faster than human progress to protect them - and us," Ban told the assembled leaders...
...Karel Lannoo, head of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, says it will be difficult to implement efforts to regulate bonuses in the E.U., as rules on working conditions are decided at the national level by individual governments. He adds that although bonuses are a powerful rallying point for E.U. leaders, the payouts represent just a tiny fraction of the global banking losses over the past year and are not to blame for the crisis. "Bankers are exceedingly unpopular, and leaders feel they have to act," he says. "But bonuses are a symptom of the crisis...
...activity, a place - we know [people] from the coffee shop or the gym. We know them because we stuff envelopes with them at a fundraiser. And so AA is very much like that. They're all there trying to heal, and you quickly get to a very, very deep level of exposure because you're talking about your personal life. But once you go home, you may speak with these people on the phone, you may meet them for coffee or brunch, but they're not part of your central core of intimates. Some may become so, of course...
...taking a definitive leadership role in a political party that has not always made the most savvy electoral decisions. President Obama must represent all of America, but he is wise to take an aggressive role in the positioning and organization of his party, not just at the nationwide level of government, but also at the state and local level...
...held three years before he ascended to the General Secretaryship of the Party in 2002. Because previous head-of-state successions have essentially been orchestrated by dominant leaders like Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, Hu's path to power is the only precedent Chinawatchers - and, indeed, middle and lower level Party members - have to make judgments about the process. Until now, Xi, China's current vice president, has received the same titles at the same point in time as Hu. Xi's failure to get the Military Commission job last week has sparked a heated debate among Sinologists about...