Word: mende
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Clinton's trip to India was a symbolic gesture to mend the rift between the two countries--and it succeeded. While critics again claimed that a simple trip abroad could not resolve decades of testy relations, it did. Clinton met with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi for extensive talks on the nuclear test ban treaty; he met with business leaders in the bustling technology capital of Hyderabad; he met with Indian women to share their concerns over views of the female in traditional Indian culture. The large protest groups expected were small gatherings; the bottles thrown...
...slumber. On the contrary, the accompanying inflation indicator, the GDP price deflator, actually came in belowthe figure reported a month ago. And the good news didn't end there: U.S. exports rose by 10.1 percent (2.3 percent above last year's increase), suggesting the world economy is on the mend and holding the promise of some desperately needed relief in the U.S. trade deficit...
...central administrators struggle to fix the system, they must work with the faculties to mend broken lines of communication. And they must convince faculty and staff that the $112 million being spent on Project ADAPT is not in vain...
...Mendelson recommends cleaning the kitchen floor on one's hands and knees. (Yet among the reader reviews on Amazon.com one male fan of the book commented, "Since I am the more organized partner of my marriage I have found it to be a wonderful tool in helping my wife mend her sometimes messy ways." Alas, the great ones really are taken.) Alluding to, among other chapters, Mendelson's take on "Peaceful Coexistence with Microbes," Katha Pollitt complained in the Nation that "this is domesticity as paranoia--Oh, no, a germ...
Bypassing a democracy-toppling military regime is normally an easy call. But Pakistan is a key to regional stability and to battling terrorism. The Pentagon is pushing hard for Clinton to go--in order to mend badly frayed military-military ties, and Clinton is said to believe that establishing a personal link to ruling GENERAL PERVEZ MUSHARRAF could be vital in defusing a crisis. But Clinton's security is a major concern, as is the danger of sending the wrong message about U.S. commitment to democracy and weapons nonproliferation. Progress in those areas--if it comes soon--could...