Word: progressives
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...been "an important symbol of the government's willingness to embark on the kind of meaningful engagement" that would lend credibility to the elections. Ban said his mission served the purpose of allowing him to convey what the international community and the United Nations expects from the regime, like progress toward democracy, directly to the country's leader. He said he did this "as strongly as possible, as hard as I could press." He believes, he said, that Than Shwe will "seriously consider" his proposals for making national elections scheduled for 2010 "credible, inclusive and legitimate...
...career that took plenty of strange turns, it's perhaps no surprise that Jackson's progress toward a final resting place is beginning to seem just as chaotic. At least one of Michael's close friends, Mark Lester, the godfather to Jackson's three children, says he's in the dark as to the icon's own final wishes. (Hear TIME's top 10 Michael Jackson songs...
...test again for the system is, Are banks able to raise equity? Are investors confident enough in their ability to judge the strength of the banks' balance sheets that they're willing to put equity into a bank? We've seen substantial progress in that area. Now we're still going to put in place these facilities for legacy assets because we think they are good insurance against the risk of a future downturn, and we think they provide some broad help to this process of thawing receding credit markets. If the world gets progressively better, you may see less...
...other areas, progress has been slow. In 2005, Masondo announced that by 2009 he planned to rehouse all 215,000 families living in shacks. That deadline has passed, but the shantytowns are not gone. In May 2008 they erupted in riots that killed 62 people and displaced...
Netanyahu and Obama have made some progress on other aspects of restarting a peace process. The Israeli leader has finally accepted the idea of a Palestinian state, albeit with limited sovereignty, and he has signaled an intent to ease the Gaza blockade, remove some West Bank roadblocks, release some Palestinian prisoners and transfer more security responsibility in West Bank towns to Palestinian forces. But in publicly and repeatedly demanding a settlement freeze, even after Israel objected, Obama has made it not only a test of Netanyahu's bona fides as a peacemaker, but also of U.S. credibility. The President hasn...