Word: rebellion
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Dubai's embrace of Western business principles was no match for Western politicians with security fears, either real or politically opportunistic. The Bush Administration, stung by a rebellion in its own party, announced last week that it would review a deal by another Dubai firm to buy a British company, Doncasters, which makes precision parts for U.S. military aircraft and tanks at plants in Georgia and Connecticut...
...their forsaken fields are now a front line in a little-noticed war between security forces and an estimated 10,000 Marxist guerrillas. In a land-mine attack a few hours' drive north of Hyderabad three days before Bush arrived, the Naxals (who take their name from a 1967 rebellion in the town of Naxalbari) killed almost 30 government supporters returning from an antirebel rally. Today, there is old India and new India. One is epitomized by the surging chaos that fascinated generations of backpackers and travel writers. The other is the efficient center of outsourcing and IT that thrills...
...from work. By the time the President moved to quash it several days later with assurances that he wouldn't have allowed the deal "if there was any chance that this transaction would jeopardize the security of the United States," it was far too late to quell the Republican rebellion. "This freight train had already left the station," says a Bush aide. And the President's threat to use his first-ever veto was no obstacle to its momentum...
RESIGNED. LAWRENCE SUMMERS, 51, embattled president of Harvard, following a rebellion by the influential Faculty of Arts and Sciences; in Cambridge, Mass. (see page...
...shout” and begins to get tiresome. Boras fares better. Although she is much older than the 14 year-old Juliet for which the original production calls, Boras reminds the audience of Juliet’s youth by bringing out the petulant-teen aspect in her rebellion against her parents. This characterization fits well with the general image of the production. Tending towards adolescent melodramatics with lines like, “Be not so long to speak. I long to die,” Juliet could as easily be seen giving such angst ridden speeches wearing black eyeliner...