Word: nosing
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When you're on the lookout for lemurs - the unusually cute and endangered group of primates found only on the African island of Madagascar - it helps to have good eyes (lemurs are small), sharp ears (they rustle the trees) and a keen nose (they have an unmistakable smell...
...like to circle a block known for its expat bars. The shock comes from everything appearing Western and yet being just different enough to always keep you on your toes. And so, for fear of becoming a sleazy expat who takes everything at face value, I have held my nose, dived into the smog, and tried to find an authentic experience in a city that’s about as real as Vegas or Dubai.“This is my lowest price, I can go no lower, I could be killed, I cannot feed my family for any lower...
...stationing of rockets in Poland, radar posts in the Czech Republic, and America's flirt-and-more with the states of the once "soft underbelly" of the (Soviet) Russian bear, among them Georgia. Russia had to react! We thought it a good idea to put a ring into the nose of the Russian bear in Kosovo, and the bear now drags the supposed bear tamer by his own rope over the bloodstained ground of Ossetia. Volker Galperin, SYKE, GERMANY...
...That lesson was taken to heart by the extraordinarily skillful foreign-policy team around President George H.W. Bush, which was convinced that it was dangerous to rub Moscow's nose in its own failure. As Western policy shifted in the Clinton years toward doing more to protect those who had suffered Soviet domination, there was no shortage of those who argued that Washington was playing with fire. I remember those debates very well. They were vigorous and impassioned. For all those who warned that it was unwise to poke the Russian bear in the eye, there were those (myself included...
...company, which pumped so much cash into the franchise that City was able to make an audacious last-minute bid for Berbatov - and then topped that by spending a British record of $59 million to sign Brazilian striker Robinho, from Spain's Real Madrid. Snatching Robinho from under the nose of Chelsea confirmed City's sudden arrival as a major player in the high-stakes transfer market of European soccer...