Word: reverts
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...from South Korea but also from the U.S., Japan and China, will be needed to bring North Korea into the global economy - assuming, that is, that Kim Jong Il wants to join. Skeptics note that Kim has played this game before, feigning cooperation in return for aid, only to revert to belligerence and isolation. But the Bush Administration and experts in Seoul seem to believe things will be different this time. One of the South's foremost North Korea watchers, Koh Yu Hwan of Seoul's Dongguk University, says Kim has "already decided that grand bargain" - nukes for economic...
...this claim. A 1999 study in the Journal of Business found that the boycott had almost no impact on financial markets or corporations in South Africa. In addition, global capital markets are significantly more liquid than they were in the 1980s, so even short-term effects of divestment will revert more quickly...
...individual identities of Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen, it’s possible to see the same lovely face on more magazine covers than ever before. Hopefully, they’ll be successful enough in maintaining distinctive lives that they won’t have to revert back to exploiting their sisterhood. 2. The Rolling Stones Rumors have been circulation about another tour in ’08. Nothing’s been officially confirmed yet, and with any luck, Mick Jagger will stop trying to prove that he’s aged gracefully. 1. The Messiah It?...
...despite all its newfound diplomatic adroitness, on a few sensitive issues the Beijing government seems to revert instinctively to its Maoist-era default mode. Last week China gave the world a series of demonstrations of that, in relation to two especially sensitive issues, Taiwan and the Dalai Lama...
...one’s personal feelings on the merits of the delayed choice, is it preposterous to adopt a system pushing back concentration choices and then neglect to enforce it. If the Faculty wishes to preserve courses like Social Studies 10 in their current state, then it should revert to its previous policies; if it believes that delayed choice is important—and we believe it is—than it should ensure that all departments get in line...