Word: nuclearization
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...recent windfall has, for example, given Iran - OPEC's second-biggest oil producer - a cushion to neutralize the impact of Western sanctions over its nuclear program, and to ameliorate the effect of a struggling economy. But because Iran imports crucial refined diesel to keep its cars and factories running, it needs to sell its crude oil for $60 a barrel or more, according to oil analysts. So, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has plenty of incentive to push his OPEC colleagues to vote for production cuts: If falling prices force his government to cut its heavy gasoline subsidies, he won't help...
...three big remaining state-owned banks, Halkbank, was supposed to be next on the block, but the government dithered over how to sell it, and now, because of the worldwide financial turmoil, it can't - at least, not for a good price. A September tender for a new nuclear power plant - Turkey's first - was ill-prepared, and turned into a fiasco when all the bidders except for one Russian-led consortium dropped out. A three-year agreement with the IMF under which it would provide Turkey loans of as much as $10 billion, if needed, expired...
...slated to play in a nearly identical concert, but the performance was cancelled due to international unrest sparked by North Korea’s first nuclear tests...
...being named Korea’s Foreign Minister in 2004. In 2006 he was selected to replace Kofi Annan as UN Secretary General. After reminiscing on his graduate school days, Ban then addressed his five top concerns as Secretary General: global financial stability, climate change, global health, terrorism, and nuclear disarmament. “These global public goods distinguish themselves because they endanger all countries, whether rich or poor, small or big,” Ban said. Ban called terrorism and weapons of mass destruction “the most serious threat to international peace and security...
...currently the co-chairman and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, an organization that tries to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons by analyzing threats and funding threat-reduction projects like the cleanup of nuclear material left in Belgrade...