Word: renewer
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...investigation); officers at Russia's Interior Ministry have questioned Dudley as a witness in connection with another probe into tax evasion at a firm later absorbed into TNK-BP; and dozens of the company's foreign staff may have to leave Russia after authorities nixed requests to renew their work permits. BP suspects AAR may be behind the regulatory squeeze; the consortium insists that's nonsense...
...their national I.D. cards - they are also a normal and visible part of society. A Bangkok travel agency I use is staffed by kathoeys, and a cashier at my local grocery store is rapidly transitioning toward womanhood. One of the Immigration Department officers who last year helped me renew my work visa had both an Adam's apple and lavish mascara. Kathoeys star on TV soap operas and grace catwalks at fashion shows, while an all-kathoey pop group called the Venus Flytrap plies the airwaves. Notable kathoey athletes include a kickboxing champion, who liked to plant kisses...
...military plan that aims to deepen France's involvement with its NATO and European allies in the fight against post-9/11 threats. And critically, he indicated that France will soon rejoin NATO's military command, even if its nuclear forces would remain under strictly national control. "We can renew our relations with NATO without fearing for our independence and without the risk of being unwillingly dragged into a war," Sarkozy said...
...1960s through this decade brought similar admissions and accusations of failure and subsequent attempts to review, renew, and reorganize. In fact, in June 1980, the now-famous Susan C. Faludi ’81 begins her Commencement issue editorial by saying that “it has become a Harvard tradition of sorts to report periodically on the failures of advising.” Indeed...
...many successes and failures in the 1960s, but we've forgotten the most important lesson: in order to end poverty you have to make it a priority. Well, if Moses was able to find the Promised Land after 40 years in the desert, then certainly we can renew the cause after wandering...