Word: requesters
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...wording of the French proposal may sidestep this issue altogether. A more nuanced request to protect the small businesses—tiny charcuteries, family restaurants, cheese makers, rare turnip producers—that make the well-fed-village atmosphere of France possible may underlie the media’s sensationalized version of the proposal...
Regardless of the wording of the proposal, though, it seems very unlikely that UNESCO will name French cuisine the first world gastronomic treasure. Given its history of turning down culinary proposals (Mexico’s similar request three years ago was shot down before it even reached committee) and Khaznadar’s reluctance, UNESCO is unlikely to reverse course...
...dance with scores of token, mind-blowingly beautiful women. The three apparently constitute the only males at the party, except for one scrubby dude who needs some Listerine and a couple of white men who appear near the end of the video having fulfilled Luda’s earlier request to “get some ice.” This appears to be their only function. The soul of the video is, of course, the women’s thoughts that pop up in cartoon bubbles throughout. They range from predictable (“He got money...
...than expected, considering the bill's spectacular failure, 228 to 205, on Monday that caused the largest one-day drop, 778 points, in the Dow Jones industrial average. Very soon after passage, President Bush signed the bill into law, finally giving Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson the authority that he requested more than two weeks ago to buy up Wall Street's distressed mortgage-backed securities. But getting it done was not pretty or easy, and the clearest sign of that was in the sheer size of the legislation itself; Paulson's original request was barely three pages long, whereas...
While the bill is intended to help fix, or at least calm, the ailing economy, perhaps the most immediate impact has been on the presidential campaign. Since Paulson made his request on Sept. 18, McCain has lost the 3-point lead in national polls - his first in the general election - which he'd built on the back of his successful convention and pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate. He now trails Obama by 6 percentage points, according to an average of national polls by the nonpartisan website RealClearPolitics, and the focus of the campaign has shifted from character...