Word: primed
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...other side of the Atlantic, European Union governments have spurned entreaties to let funds flow into their staggering economies. "Europe has done what it needed to do," says Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who is also chairman of the 16-member euro zone, adding that the U.S.'s appeals "were not to our liking...
Rooming: Ideal. It’s all about location, location, location, and Adams is prime real estate. Whether you live in A entryway or on the fifth floor of Claverly (overflow Adams/Lowell housing), any room in Adams is significantly closer to everything. The fifteen extra minutes of sleep you get because you can leave for class at 10:00 a.m. rather than 9:45 like your Mather friends will be more valuable than gold. As if that wasn’t enough, do the words “Gold Coast” mean anything to you? They imply that your...
...Strategic and International Studies says Ozawa's "Captain Ahab - like quest" to destroy the LDP has at times led him to adopt an anti-U.S. tone, causing some collateral damage to the U.S.-Japan alliance. But every Japanese leader understands the reality of life. Should he become Prime Minister, Ozawa's determination to hold on to power, says Green, "will lead him to pursue a strong alliance with Washington...
...days and weeks since the Baghdadia network correspondent fastballed his size 10s at Bush during Bush's joint press conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Dec. 14, his actions have been the talk of the town. Banners were hung in his honor in many parts of the capital. And in Saddam Hussein's former stronghold of Tikrit, a statue of a large shoe was erected - but then quickly removed, on orders from the Iraqi parliament. Support for al-Zaidi elsewhere in the Arab world was even more effusive, his seemingly spontaneous act resonating across a region...
...Bush nimbly ducked the leather projectiles and brushed off the matter. "So what if a guy threw his shoe at me?" he said at the time. But Prime Minister al-Maliki was not as blasé, and many Iraqis sympathetic to al-Zaidi, including his family, laid Thursday's conviction squarely at the Prime Minister's feet. "This is a political court. Muntazer is being treated like a prisoner of war. He is not a normal prisoner," the correspondent's brother Odai told reporters outside the courtroom. "This decision has been taken by the Prime Minister's office...