Word: pressingly
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...TIME: At your press conference in New York after the McGwire auction, you said you were the guy with more money than sense. I guess you had a bit more sense than you were letting...
...That press conference was eight years ago, but I seem to remember that you had plenty of emotion. You were a huge sports...
...discussion of who might stop him. The prospect of a Zuma presidency fills South Africa's élite with dread. He is the target of the country's most syndicated cartoon strip, Da Zuma Code, which depicts him as a ruthless dunderhead. Editorials and letters in the middle-class press paint Zuma as a potential African strongman in the mold of so much of postcolonial Africa to the north, with some white commentators advising selling up and leaving should he take power. In a widely distributed column, white South African Rian Malan detailed the reasons why he thought Zuma would...
...with its iconic "birds nest" design, will be finished in early 2008. A new north-south subway line is set to open in September, but other transportation improvements will be cutting it close. While Olympic committee members touted "significant construction progress" on five rail lines in an Aug. 6 press conference, completion of some key routes is not scheduled until next summer. Two more subway lines are scheduled to be finished next June, while an express train from the airport won't be running until July...
...refuseniks", as the Israeli press calls them, also have political support among the Israeli right wing. Two legislators from the religious-right parties issued a joint note of congratulations to the soldiers for "refusing to be the executioners of a blatantly immoral decision...