Word: rareness
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...Giscard d'Estaing achieved a rare victory from that middle ground in 1974. Now, once again, says Bayrou, "there are millions of French people who want out of the perpetual confrontation between the left and the right." The candidate is traveling through Normandy to a rally in Evreux. When he's not out campaigning, Bayrou likes to unwind driving one of his tractors. That machine would come in handy for uprooting the nation's two largest parties, which he compares to "big trees that have become rotten inside...
...Expecting Greatness and Other Secrets of Coaching for Exceptional Performance (co-authored by Susanne Biro). Note Peters' signature exclamation mark in the title. Will Thompson be next to follow the siren of the lecture hall? "Unlikely," he says. "I love leading this community." If so, he may be that rare management guru who actually wants to manage...
...student has received such a notice this academic year, according to Engebretsen. Harvard’s current policy states that if a student receives two notices, his or her network privileges are revoked, Levine said. He added that cases where students had to have network privileges revoked were very rare. In his remarks, Berman asked rhetorically, “Since universities are the only parties that can monitor file sharing...—shouldn’t they bear some responsibility for monitoring piracy that takes place over their networks?” Levine said in response that a hypothetical...
...Emirates - known for being a trading hub due to its ports, rather than the oil output that enriches its neighbor, Abu Dhabi. But the ambitious Sheikh Mohammed, who formally became its ruler in 2006, implemented a vision that combined Dubai's international trade links with a CEO-management style rare in Middle East governance, transforming Dubai into a global business center and tourist destination...
...clerks from a nearby ministry, shake with fury. I hadn't even heard of the film until that morning when a screed about it came on the radio, so I was able to nod darkly with the rest of the shoppers, savoring a moment of public accord so rare in Tehran. Everywhere else I went, from the dentist to the flower shop, Iranians buzzed with resentment at the film's depictions of Persians, adamant that the movie was secretly funded by the U.S. government to prepare Americans for going to war against Iran. "Otherwise why now, if not to turn...