Word: particularity
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...worrying news is that over the past several months, China in particular has begun to replace the U.S. as the main obstacle to stronger action. During the IPCC negotiations that took place last week in Bangkok, Chinese delegates-with the support of India and other developing nations-tried to tone down the report, pushing to remove the most ambitious possible targets for future carbon-emission levels. The move failed, but it's unlikely to be the last time China and India drag their feet on climate change. "It's clear that the developed world will not move without something from...
...Mormon baptisms invalid, and even the more liberal Presbyterians and United Methodists require that Mormons looking to convert be rebaptized. Southern Baptists have called Utah "a stronghold of Satan," and there are many bookshelves' worth of anti-Mormon literature in circulation. The church's aggressive missionary work is a particular challenge to other professing churches, which believe that converts to Mormonism are not truly saved...
...1960s. The largest chains--Gannett, Knight-Ridder, Tribune, Times Mirror--mostly started out family run as well, but as they expanded, the family stake was diluted, and Wall Street came to call the shots. This wasn't all bad; lots of family-owned newspapers were horrible. Knight-Ridder in particular gained a reputation for improving the properties it bought. But with profits under severe pressure from the Internet, Wall Street has turned the screws. Knight-Ridder was sold off and busted up last year; Tribune, which bought Times Mirror in 2000, was acquired by vulture investor Sam Zell in April...
...City and Grahams of Washington. "It's not just family ownership," says Alex Jones, director of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and co-author of two histories of newspaper families (the Sulzbergers as well as the Binghams of Louisville, Ky.). "It's a particular kind of family ownership that's nearly miraculous...
...most active investors, day traders, try to hold onto a particular stock only as long as is necessary to turn a profit...