Word: messes
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...President of Syria had assumed office automatically after his father died, even though the country hadn't been a hereditary kingdom for centuries. Readers also chuckled at the pun: it rhymes with molokhiya, a word for a vegetable soup that Egyptians use with comic effect to describe a mess...
...government's position. So there is still a question mark over whether the unity of the new government will hold. A lot depends on whether the government forces can mount a successful operation against rebel strongholds in the mountains. If it turns out to be a mess - either because of civilian casualties or because of substantial losses by the Macedonian security forces - the government may not survive. But the government's credibility is also threatened if it hesitates too long, because its very first act was to issue an ultimatum to the rebels. So the coalition government could fail, either...
...well suited to present themselves as the party that will save the National Health Service. Now it is the Tories who are fundamentally confused and divided, and that's making life easier for Labor. But Blair was always going to get a second term - he'd have had to mess up badly to lose his first bid for reelection...
President Rudenstine: The choices are stark: being remembered as the man who raised billions of dollars but paid out little to his workers and left an unresolved mess for his successor, or being remembered for working to the end of his tenure and resolving, peacefully, a thorny issue. Rudenstine need only look at the example of former President Nathan M. Pusey, who left office during the anti-Vietnam War protests, for a negative example...
...peripheral, something all too often goes horribly wrong. My computer sputters, chokes and begins firing off error messages. Then it becomes eerily silent, unresponsive to anything but the emergency-restart button. After what feels like days on the phone with tech support, I swear never to mess with my PC again...