Word: proclaimer
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...move on interest rates is like waiting to see if the groundhog spots his shadow. No matter what the outcome, it's the anticipation, the unknown, that makes everyone so nervous. This time around, investors were hoping Greenspan & Co. wouldn't see inflation's gloomy outline. Instead, they'd proclaim that their efforts to cool off what has been a red-hot economy had succeeded...
First thing to note, of course, is that the prime minister's proposal comes just three weeks before the September 13 settlement deadline established by PLO chairman Yasir Arafat, who has pledged to unilaterally proclaim a Palestinian state if an accord is not reached with Israel by that date. The failure of last month's peace talks at Camp David stung both Barak and Arafat, and left many doubtful that an agreement could ever be reached. Now Barak appears to be signaling that Israel could be adopting a more secular tone, in the hope that the Palestinians will offer equitable...
...Despite the depth of opposition, though, the pressure on President Clinton to give the go-ahead may prove compelling. Missile defense remains overwhelmingly popular on Capitol Hill, and the Republicans would pounce on any caution by the administration to proclaim candidate Gore as soft on security. The test failure, though, gives both Clinton and Gore new latitude to simply delay committing to a final decision, inoculating Gore against Republican attack at the same time as placating Moscow and Beijing...
...anticommunist - Suharto, Mobutu, Generals Diem and Pinochet, the medieval Islamists who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan and many other dodgy candidates were all in the "democratic" camp, remember. Even since communism's decisive defeat has allowed Washington to abandon such questionable company, it's simply not true to proclaim democracy as the basis for U.S. foreign policy...
...search for the perfect shoe has made me an inadvertent expert - a horrified expert - on shoe developments. I have noticed, as you may have, that in recent years the designs of men's and women's shoes have grown both comic and hideous. What accounts for this? Shoes proclaim the foot. Terribly ugly statements are being made. Some of the proclamations verge on the psychotic...