Word: mende
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...Japan is on the mend due primarily to U.S.-led demand for exports, the country could be poised for more pain. For one thing, the yen has been strengthening against the dollar, making Japanese exports less of a bargain overseas. That caused the Bank of Japan to go on a dollar-buying binge last week to keep the yen in check. Plus, there's no consumer boom inside Japan to take up slack if the U.S. recovery stalls. Businesses, operating with excess capacity, still aren't investing in new machinery, factories or technology, nor are they hiring. Unemployment remains high...
...smarter. It took care of its own by taking care of others. It built international institutions - NATO, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization - that advanced American interests, military and economic, along with those of others. Today, the U.S. is more prone to rend than to mend the international fabric. But why should Gulliver bear the ropes? Easy. Better to contain yourself than to have others gang up on you. This has been the fate of all hegemonic powers from Napoleon's France to Stalin's Russia. Gulliver did well for himself by doing good for others. He got into...
...interacting with people from both cultures, I hope to mend the gap between these societies,” he said...
That concern has become only more prominent since last December when Summers began to spar with West, allegedly about the quality of West’s scholarship and the role of race in college admissions. After that tiff, it seemed that Summers tried to mend some fences—until West blasted Summers as being the cause of his departure. As West made clear in his statements to the press, his decision was made largely based upon Summers’ failure to take any real measures to keep him. Soon, even DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis...
...captured in a gunfight in Pakistan last month, has made it abundantly clear to the American military and intelligence personnel who visit his hospital bed that "he isn't a big fan of ours," a U.S. official says sardonically. So last week, when the Palestinian fanatic, on the mend at a secret U.S. facility overseas, declared that among the next targets of Osama Bin Laden's terror cells would be U.S. banks along the Eastern seaboard, the Americans were inclined to wonder if he was merely taunting them. "He's a smart guy," says one US official familiar with Zubaydah...