Word: roberts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...helicopter I have now seems perfectly adequate to me. Of course, I've never had a helicopter before.' OBAMA, saying he had asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to review the project, whose cost has ballooned to $11.2 billion, from $6.1 billion...
...clear the logjam that has blocked progress since the Dalai Lama was forced to flee Lhasa nearly 50 years ago. On the Chinese side, there's little doubt that some officials realize their strategy of oppression at home and stonewalling overseas will one day backfire. But as Tibet scholar Robert Barnett of Columbia University says, their chance of influencing Beijing's policy before it is too late is vanishingly small: "Eventually, the hard-liners are going to be thrown out for having bungled their tasks. But by the time that happens, the chance of negotiating with the Dalai Lama might...
According to Robert Winters, a political commentator and professor at the Harvard Extension School, the system was designed to ensure that the political dynamics of the council are maintained in the event of a vacancy...
...after Obama was elected, the White House argues that the pork-laden bill - which increases federal spending across a range of Cabinet departments by 8% - is part of the prior Administration's legacy. "What may be next week's bill is last year's legislation," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. (See the top 10 outrageous earmarks...
...dire as their situation has been, the brokers of the African Banking Corp. and their peers are hoping better times are just around the corner. A new power-sharing agreement between the opposition and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party could see progress on restarting Zimbabwe's moribund economy. And it's rumored that Gono's job may be on the chopping block. Foreign investors are eager to dive back into the fray, sensing major opportunities in an economy that will have to be rebuilt almost from scratch. One client of African Banking Corp. is ready to multiply...