Word: national
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...established as a private hideaway amid a forest but is now in the middle of a residential neighborhood. (He may have played tennis with the First Lady, but that has not been confirmed.) Then the President put on a suit coat - but no tie - as he faced the nation to talk about the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas...
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, who had previously likened citizens protesting the results of the nation's disputed presidential election to "dirt and dust" --JUNE...
...DEMINT, Republican Senator from South Carolina, comparing President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul the nation's health care system to the battle that dethroned Napoléon Bonaparte --JULY...
...cities like Juárez witnessed up to a dozen or more murders a day amid fighting between drug gangs and government forces--and, just as often, among rival cartels. Meanwhile, corruption in the ranks of police, army and government officials is so endemic that some analysts have declared the nation of 110 million a failed state. The U.S. has pledged $1.4 billion over three years to combat drug-fueled crime in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America--an overture dwarfed by the demand for illegal narcotics north of the border...
...academy, which will be similar to the ones that have groomed so many big-name talents in the Dominican Republic over the past 30 years, hopes to help Nicaragua, which has produced only 11 big-leaguers, reach its potential as the next great baseball nation. And once there are 20 or 30 Nicaraguans playing in the majors, this impoverished Central American nation will be able to conduct its own baseball diplomacy with young fans across America...