Word: prospecting
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...they were that the U.S. had agreed to take Pyongyang off its list of state sponsors of terrorism, something Kim has long sought. The only problem is that the U.S. later flatly denied that Pyongyang was off the list, saying the February agreement only held that out as a prospect if and when the North verifiably no longer had nukes...
...with a giant pin. But they aren't the only ones who could use a lesson about social obligation. What about grownups? Grownups, who still have some hope of collecting Social Security and Medicare before they go broke, who have enjoyed the explosion in house prices that make the prospect of home ownership so dim for the next generation; who allowed the government to run up a gargantuan national debt, were miraculously bailed out of that, and immediately allowed it to be run up a second time; who may well have gone to college when tuition was cheap...
...breakthrough, but they did that last year and the year before that to no avail. And if the Doha talks fail, says economist Edwards, "it becomes all the more important that this region have the widest free-trade agreement possible." Downer, however, sees that as a very remote prospect: "It's an aspiration. There's not going to be any timeline set" in Sydney...
...should the Islamists put up with electoral manipulation? Because the founders of the Islamist movements that combined to form the PJD made the strategic decision that participating in politics, with the prospect of reaching power one day, was better than remaining oppositionists on the sidelines...
...urge Democratic donors in Florida, one of the country's most lucrative sources of political cash, to boycott the national party and keep their funds in the state if the DNC sticks to its ruling. Perhaps the national party will wise up, he says, if it faces the prospect of losing all that Flori-dough...