Word: mannered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TIME: Why impose emergency rule instead of holding fresh elections? AHMED: Look at what was happening immediately before we came to power. Elections are meaningful if they're held in a free, fair and credible manner and are based on a voter list that is error-free and prepared by a nonpartisan Election Commission. The absence of these conditions resulted in an impasse, which ultimately led to the declaration of an emergency; under the constitution, we were called in as a nonparty caretaker government ... While we are focused on establishing a level playing field, we are also taking measures...
...driven instead by firms beyond the reach of the feds. Some of these state-regulated mortgage lenders belong to the same corporate families as banks, but they weren't subject to visits from the same finger-wagging federal bank examiners. As a result, the subprime lenders made all manner of dodgy loans, and that could go on only for so long...
Richard Lacayo remarked that architecture has become "practically as glamorously daredevil as bullfighting." But bullfighting is certainly not glamorous for the bull, which is destined to die in a hideous, cruel manner, nor is it daredevil for the coward who wields the swords. Any way you look at it, bullfighting is not a good comparison for great architecture...
...this disappointment will be laid to rest in April with the opening of the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. Old crew pennants from the Henley Cup, portraits of a positively paternal A. Lawrence Lowell, Former Unviersity President, and all manner of similarly rich Harvard bric-a-brac will adorn the walls of the space under Memorial Hall, in the shadow of the stifling modernity of the Science Center. Who’s laughing now, Jonas Salk...
...Bush and Vice President Cheney spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki via video conference. Gesturing from a large flat panel screen in the cramped Situation Room, al-Maliki assured Bush and Cheney he was committed to implementing the most recent security plan for Iraq in an "evenhanded manner," according to the White House. That was exactly what Bush and Cheney wanted to hear...