Word: nascent
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...picture of the Pontiff is still taking shape. But his first additions to the top rung of the Church hierarchy - which include two prominent Americans, a Chinese prelate and Pope John Paul II?s personal secretary - give further clarity to both the form and substance of Benedict?s nascent reign...
...insane,” he says of the tour. “I remember being in a place called Japan, but I didn’t know if I was actually in Japan.” This winter, Harvard has taken a backseat to Eskenazi’s nascent rockstardom. He has been bussing it to New York each weekend to rehearse new tracks. “He’s only around Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,” his roommate Magnus Grimeland ’07 reports. “But this is the stuff he loves. He always...
...going to block deals for what Dubai sees as political reasons, there is less of an incentive to trade with American companies--and it could bolster Dubai's effort to attract Arab capital to its nascent financial center. More concretely, Dubai is committed to $200 billion in projects, including expanding the city of Dubai's airport, and tons more hotels and condos. Dubai recently unveiled a plan to create a "global aerospace manufacturing and services corporation" that will offer leasing and repair services, challenging firms like General Electric (start-up funds: $15 billion). Emaar is building an entire city...
...broadcasting, networks make money by charging advertisers for commercial space--an effective and time-tested financial model. With the $1.99 downloads, nets stand to make about $1.39--compared with 44 per household typically earned from ads on an hour-long drama. But new-media ventures are still in their nascent stages. NBC estimates it will make $10 million from iTunes downloads in 2006--an amount equal to ad sales from one Thursday prime-time lineup...
What we do know is that for all our mistakes, free elections have been held in a largely Arab Muslim country. We know that the Kurds in the north enjoy freedoms and a nascent civil society that is a huge improvement on the past. We know that the culture of the marsh Arabs in the south is beginning to revive. We know that we have given Iraqis a chance to decide their own destiny through politics rather than murder and that civil war is still avoidable. We know that the enemies of democracy in Iraq will not stop there...