Word: particularity
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That kind of talk has mobilized political leaders across Europe - many of whom are now screaming for European Central Bank (ECB) authorities to intervene with measures to bring exchange rates back into balance. French President Nicolas Sarkozy in particular has been scathing in his demands that the ECB drop its obsession with controlling inflation and, instead, introduce measures that would allow European economies to expand faster. As part of that, the French are calling on the ECB to reduce its benchmark lending rate of 4% in much the way the U.S. Federal Reserve has in the past months. That move...
...Baker isn't interested in just changing the way we write history; he wants to change our minds about what happened and what should have happened. He shows us a vain, bloodthirsty Winston Churchill overeager to wage war and not overly particular about bombing civilians. He shows us Franklin D. Roosevelt turning away European refugees and baiting the Japanese before Pearl Harbor. As a counterweight, Baker spotlights international pacifist movements, with Mohandas Gandhi as their principal spokesperson. Ultimately Baker appears to be making the argument that no violence is ever justifiable, even in self-defense, and that, in Gandhi...
...College in New Hampshire, also adjusted their results for cohort effects: their data spanned more than 30 years, making them confident that whatever makes people miserable about being middle-aged, it isn't related, say, to being born in the year 1960 and growing up with that generation's particular set of experiences...
Babylon reached its greatest heights in the early 6th century B.C. under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, who endowed his capital with unequaled architectural splendor. Cuneiform sources offer little evidence of what the city looked like, but classical accounts - in particular, by the 5th century Greek historian Herodotus - describe a city that extended for 14 miles (23 km) in each direction, divided in the middle by the mighty Euphrates, and fortified by five sun-dried mud-brick walls, each up to 23 ft. (7 m) thick. The walls guarded a spectacular inner city, whose grand streets ran parallel...
...requires the state to aggressively go after people. Indeed, the education department (which is not involved in the lawsuit) will not want to waste their resources going after such parents, despite the "illegality" of their actions, leaving the Second District Court of Appeals opinion of the law unenforced. "This particular family [involved in the child abuse case] is going to be in jeopardy if they lose," Sugarman said. "But everyone else can go on their merry...