Word: properous
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...focuses on the U.S., but there is a more heavy-handed slant on some stories than on others. After U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff was arrested as a spy in Moscow in late August, TASS declared he had been "caught red-handed" and that "it would seem proper that his bosses should still their tongues out of shame." The Soviet news agency used the episode as an opportunity to lambaste the CIA, reminding readers how the agency "prepared such subversive acts as the intrusion of a South Korean Boeing aircraft into Soviet airspace or the assassination attempt...
...never managed to get on the plane in Tokyo. Taipei had warned all Taiwan-bound airlines not to accept any passenger without proper entry documents. Two days later he used a false name to get on a flight from Manila, but Taipei had been tipped off, and he was forced to return on the same plane...
...woman President in a country known for the macho style of its politics has been a special burden for Corazon Aquino. One of the most spiteful putdowns she had to endure during her campaign for the presidency early this year was Ferdinand Marcos' contention that a woman's proper place was in the bedroom. Last week she savored some sweet revenge. Speaking before a group of businesswomen in Manila, she referred to the deposed Marcos as the "first male chauvinist to underestimate me," though presumably not the last. Then Mrs. President, as she now likes to be called, added feistily...
...David Cameron: I supported the decision to go to war, and most of the Conservative Party voted with the government at the time. There were serious mistakes made subsequent to that - disbanding the Iraqi army and the police force, allowing a situation of anarchy to develop, the lack of proper post-war planning in terms of how Iraq was going to run - and I think there are some different decisions that could have been taken that would have led to very different consequences. Even now, I would be more comfortable with something that was closer to the Baker-Hamilton plan...
...music became another type of escape. He took singing lessons and taught himself to play piano; a severe dyslexic, Mika is unable to read music. His first proper gig was, aged 11, in the choir in Richard Strauss's Die Frau Ohne Schatten at London's Royal Opera House. He went on to study at the Royal College of Music. At night, he worked on his pop songs or waited tables to pay the studio bills. Eventually a record company showed interest - but only if he did as he was told. "I wrote Grace Kelly as a kind of reaction...