Word: obvious
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...back as 2003, that there were faults on the wheels of Berlin's S-Bahn trains," says Oliver Kaufhold, a spokesman for the German rail union Transnet. "When a third of the city's engineering depots have been shut down and they've cut back staff numbers, it's obvious something will crack one day." (See pictures of Barack Obama visiting Berlin...
...Thank you for shedding some light on Mormons who feel unsure about the issue of Proposition 8. As a student at Brigham Young University this year, I did not feel able to voice my own insecurity on the political issue, as several of my classmates bore obvious ill will toward those Mormons not 100% on board. Chelsea Gibbs, Mamaroneck...
Call it Generation Disappointment. As the recession tightens across Europe, the young are hurting disproportionately. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Spain where unemployment in the general population runs to more than 17% and one in three people younger than 25 is out of work. Many have no frame of reference for what is happening; they grew up with two decades of strong economic growth and the optimistic assumption that they would be better off than their parents, just as their parents did better than the generation before them. The realization that Nikes, Wiis and cell phones...
...favorite example of leadership as responsibility is a memo that was never sent. The day before the D-day landings in 1944, Dwight Eisenhower--not much obvious charisma there--sat down and wrote a short message that would be made public in the event that the next day went horribly wrong. "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold," Ike wrote, "and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the navy did all that bravery...
...Administration is expected to move to the next phase despite the obvious lack of confidence of either side in the other. That would involve defining some sort of process of talks on a timetable aimed at resolving the key questions of where to draw borders between Israel and a state of Palestine, the terms of Palestinian sovereignty, how to share Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees. But both sides have been through such a process before and failed to conclude a deal. For many Middle East watchers, the key question will be whether Obama sets a deadline for such...