Word: phrase
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama stands, and it's where McCain was going this week until he ducked. The official text of his Portland speech contained a reference to a "cost equalization mechanism" - the trade-sanctions stick if China balks - but McCain edited it out before show time, replacing the mechanism with the phrase "effective diplomacy" - which sounds like jawboning that's all carrot, no stick. In other words, McCain hasn't decided where he stands on this all-important issue. But maybe that's OK. Obama or Clinton will be sure to explore it with him-in the campaign and perhaps as early...
...Belgrade's decision to hold elections in Kosovo is part of a broader effort by Serbia and Kosovo's Serb minority, which makes up about 10% of the population, to maintain control over the breakaway state. The defiant phrase KOSOVO IS SERBIA! has cropped up all over the place, from a tennis tournament in California (where a banner bearing those words was confiscated from Serbian fans) to the European swimming championships in the Netherlands - where a Serbian medalist was suspended for wearing the slogan on his T shirt. Hard-line nationalists in Belgrade who continue to reject Kosovo...
...regret referring to Bill Clinton as the first black President? -Justin Dews, Cambridge, Mass.People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race...
...room is filled with stuffed seabirds, homemade bows, fishing spears and tiny hand-carved bone figures shaped like mythical creatures. Laid out on the table are their best cups and saucers - it is time for Kaffemik. Translated from the Danish as "Please come to our house for coffee," this phrase is used to welcome neighbors, friends, relatives and - increasingly - tourists into local homes. Along with the robust coffee, we are served plates of bread with smoked fish, followed by cakes and buns. And while we eat, our hosts entertain us with folk tales and stories of life in Sisimiut...
...decision to move the value-added sorting and aggregation from its traditional center in London to Gaborone was a pure business call for De Beers, according to Penny and De Beers Group chairman Nicky Oppenheimer. It's a concrete way to live up to a phrase coined by Oppenheimer, posted on the wall of every De Beers office: LIVING UP TO DIAMONDS. Oppenheimer, one of the richest men in Africa and the third generation of Oppenheimers to run De Beers, notes, "Ultimately, people do not need to buy diamonds." That they do buy them, he says, is bound...