Word: primed
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...avoid that, Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány wants $230 billion in aid for Eastern members hardest hit by the crisis, and fast-track membership to the eurozone, the club of nations that uses Europe's common currency. Without help, Gyurcsány says, there is likely to be social and political unrest and a new economic Iron Curtain across Europe...
...summit in Brussels on March 1, German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the call for a mass bailout. Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs meetings of the eurozone's finance ministers, dismissed the idea of relaxing the entry criteria to the euro. And French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who just a few weeks ago raised the specter of a return to protectionism when he suggested that French carmakers should close their factories in the East and move home, accused Eastern Europe of putting the entire E.U. at risk...
...current Harvard students were allowed in the contest, these guys were definitely the most polished of the four competing groups. Also the only straightforward two guitars, bass, and drums rock outfit in the battle, the Ben Kultgen Band threw down some solid pop-rock. Three songs that would be prime for rotation on any adult-alternative radio station were it not for some heavy metal-inspired guitar work, were by far the tightest, cleanest songs of the night. They did a great job getting the crowd into it, seemingly dedicating every song to the ladies, and even the other bands...
...only country turning to protectionist barriers. In a similar vein, French policymakers have included protectionist measures in their stimulus bill, though European Union complaints have made them temper their proposals. Furthermore, for all his talk of avoiding economic nationalism in his speech to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for “British jobs for British workers.” Though the rhetoric of short-term political gain is attractive, it is definitely detrimental for everyone playing the game. Economic nationalism gives rise to a prisoner’s dilemma in which...
...Protestant ministry. Now, it consists of 6,700 undergraduate men and women preparing for lives of contemplation and self-denial in the current economy. With the demise of the Reason and Faith requirement in the new General Education system, religion at Harvard seems to have completed its trajectory from prime focus of the classroom to just another extracurricular activity. On the Harvard website, “Religious Groups” inhabit a drop-down menu of activities cheek-by-jowl with “Academic & Pre-Professional,” “Arts and Performance...