Word: neill
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...answer seems to be that the world can indeed ride out a period of U.S. weakness. "The overwhelming evidence of the past few months is that the rest of the world is doing just fine, and that some places are doing better than just fine," says Jim O'Neill, London-based head of global economic research for Goldman Sachs. Even if the U.S. economy remains soft for much of the year, O'Neill adds, "we're pretty confident that the rest of the world will withstand it." At the German Engineering Federation in Frankfurt, chief economist Ralph Wiechers concurs...
...power comes not from public pomp or grand acts of statesmanship, but from hundreds of small ones, usually far beneath the radar of the general public. When Americans notice who the Speaker of the House is, it's usually because they've done something wrong - unless, like Tip O'Neill, they've been in office longer than any of the Presidents they served. Newt Gingrich's notoriety was a rare exception - and his steep fall from grace a cautionary example...
...this compulsively readable, deeply unnerving book, Wright traces the rise of Islamic terrorism from the Egyptian polemicist Sayyid Qutb to the spread of the Muslim Brotherhood to Osama bin Laden. Enter John O'Neill, the FBI counterterrorism chief who connected the dots of al-Qaeda's plot and tried in vain to warn his bosses right up to the day he died--Sept...
...Harvard shows—some already on their fourth or fifth appearance on a runway—and amateur designers are making a career designing for shows throughout the year. Karl, Marc, move aside. The producers of Haute’s show were Kristen D. O’Neill ’07 and Abigail M. Baird ’08, both of the fashion-oriented Harvard Vestis Council. Baird’s main inspiration for the show was the Montreal-based acrobatic powerhouse, Cirque du Soleil. “The different color schemes” of the show?...
Speaker of the House is one of the most treacherous jobs in Washington. Tip O'Neill was the last one to leave the big chair voluntarily, nearly 20 years ago. The four who have followed him have been ousted. Pelosi may have taken a different path to power than her predecessors--she was 47 and had raised five children before she ran for office the first time--but by rising rapidly in an institution where getting ahead has always meant waiting in line for your turn, she ensured that she would have a large target on her back...