Word: ottawa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spent yesterday in Ottawa doing just this...
...wrist slap: a sentence of two years. In September 1980, Cheng left China, moving to Ottawa for about three years, then to Washington, D.C., where she now lives. ''In Washington,'' she says, ''I live a full and busy life. Only sometimes I feel a haunting sadness. At dusk, when the day is fading away and my physical energy is at a low ebb, I may find myself depressed and nostalgic. But next morning I invariably wake up with renewed optimism to welcome the day as another God-given opportunity for enlightenment and experience. My only regret is that Meiping...
This movement against graft faces its biggest test in the BAE Systems case. Anticorruption advocates are livid. "There are great concerns around the world about this decision to stop the investigation. It's just what we tell everyone not to do," says Huguette Labelle, chancellor of the University of Ottawa , who chairs the board of Transparency International, an anticorruption pressure group. She points to a glaring discrepancy in the behavior of the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who spearheaded the eiti and has made good governance a cornerstone of his African aid policy. "It's difficult to understand...
Sleeptek, an organic-bedding manufacturer based in Ottawa, Canada, has also reaped the benefits of increased consumer interest in the material. In 2000, sales of the company's Green Sleep natural-latex mattresses represented only 20% of total revenues, vs. those of innerspring mattresses. In 2006 Sleeptek's sales of natural-latex mattresses from Green Sleep and its newer Obasan line--up 30% from 2005--were 60% of the company's $4 million revenues...
...abilities. Rae's father was also an eminent diplomat who had postings in Washington, Geneva, New York and the Hague. Rae, 58, and Ignatieff were roommates at the University of Toronto, but while Ignatieff went on to academia and writing, Rae dove into politics. As an NDP MP in Ottawa, he was instrumental in the defeat of Conservative prime minister Joe Clark's government in 1979. Rae then switched to provincial politics to lead the Ontario NDP and went on to become premier in 1990 with a surprise snap-election victory over an unpopular Liberal government...