Word: pass
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...Congress and legislatures in the U.K., Europe, and Japan are faced with whether or not to let key companies in important industries pass into Chines hands. Last year, the Congress effectively blocked a deal for Chinese electronics firm Huawei Technologies to buy 3Com. The reasoning was the U.S. did not want critical telecom equipment intellectual property to be easily accessible to China. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...they're going to get stuck with them, so they're spending them as fast as they can," says clothing vendor Fabiola Espinoza. It has unintentionally created a bizarre stimulus effect on Nicaragua's beleaguered economy. "As soon as I get one of the plastic bills, I try to pass it on right away to someone else," says shopkeeper Gloria Romero. (Read a story from TIME's Archive about America's counterfeit bill problem in the 1930s...
...problem in Nicaragua, according to Liberal Constitutional Party lawmaker Francisco Aguirre, is that most people don't know what the laws say, including the government. "In this country, we pass laws and we don't know what they say and we don't care," he says. "This is an outlaw country." Still, Aguirre predicts, the issue of the new currency and whether it's legal or not is a case of a "tempest in a teapot" - an issue that will fade away as soon as the inevitable next crisis comes around. (Read a story about Nicaragua's vampire problem...
...told that I shall not touch the exam. A little bit like Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings—‘You shall not pass!’” Marshall said...
...children received any semblance of what would pass for an adequate education today. Instead, boys and girls spent much of their days in workshops, on farms or in laundries, providing free labor for the religious orders, which, in turn, received government payments for each child that was sent to school. "I was supposed to be sent to school for an education," says Quinn, who spent hours each day repairing damaged clothes in a tailor's shop. "But it was more like penal servitude...