Word: nascent
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...ballroom, schmoozing local and foreign investors, Ortega sounds like a changed man. "We won't eradicate poverty by eradicating capital or alienating investors but by joining forces with them," he says. Ortega is playing to the audience, but even former rivals believe that his evolution from communist strongman to nascent capitalist may be genuine. Says Morales: "Daniel Ortega deserves a chance to vindicate himself...
...Vietnam is already on a roll. It's GDP growth rate this year is projected to be 8.2%, the second-fastest pace in Asia behind China and in a dead heat with India. Exports were up an estimated 24% in the first 10 months of 2006. The nascent stock market in Ho Chi Minh City is one of Asia's best-performing this year, up 70%. To top it all off, Hanoi is hosting this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, on Nov. 18-19, which is expected to be attended by U.S. President George W. Bush and China...
North Korea's surprise decision to return to the suspended six-party talks over its nascent nuclear program may be the first positive glimmer from the Korean peninsula in nearly a year, but any celebration by the U.S. or its allies would be way too premature. The multilateral negotiations have been replete in the past with false starts and dashed hopes. And it's not clear that all six parties - North Korea, South Korea, Russia, China, Japan and the U.S - are on the same page...
...effects," says Tom Ortenberg, Lionsgate president of theatrical films. "They earn their scares through twists, through intelligent writing and great up-and-coming directors." Most of the Splat Packers are on only their second or third film in a genre that many critics willfully ignore. If there's a nascent Stanley Kubrick or Steven Spielberg in the mix, it's still too soon to tell. But there's certainly innovative filmmaking under way that rises above the mindless slasher sequels of the '80s or such predictable teen-star killfests of the '90s as I Know What You Did Last Summer...
They plucked the name for their nascent company straight from a dictionary, according to one of the firm’s founders, John Sytek. “It’s a geometric figure that’s a parallelogram with another parallelogram cut out of the corner,” he said...