Word: listened
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...health care? Everyone can come up with a good story to exaggerate for a good cause. But, then, democracies end up being screaming contests. Instead of having a rational conversation, we have a situation where everyone ends up screaming at the top of their lungs and what we listen to...are the ones who shout the loudest. That's unlikely to be a good way to prioritize...
...Sept. 26 the regime unleashed a violent crackdown on the protesters - a potentially dangerous move in this deeply devout nation. "The monks are the only ones who really have the trust of the people," says Khin Omar, an exiled dissident now living in Thailand. "When they speak up, people listen...
...peaceful means to solve the problem, [because] China would like to see a stable environment in Myanmar," says Zhai Kun, an expert on Southeast Asia at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing. "But because Myanmar is a closed society, I don't think they listen to advice from the outside, including China...
...have people that don't like us, who criticize the right things we are doing. Maybe sometimes we may not do things right. It's ok, we listen to that. If there any criticism that is fair, we will take it on board. If it's not correct, we move ahead...
...seat in the U.N. General Assembly, steadying herself on the desk occupied by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but apparently ignoring him as he glanced her way. "The despondent despot," gloated the New York Post, "immediately lowered his head again" and sat back to look at his watch and listen as President Bush, in a speech, lambasted Iran's "brutal and repressive" regime. It was left to the Cuban Foreign Minister to snub Bush in turn by walking out on his speech...