Word: roundness
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...without weekly breaks to make up for the shortfall, which is against international norms and poses severe safety risks. "Given how stressful the job is, traffic controllers are allowed to work no more than eight hours a day, and 110 hours a month. But we work 10-hour shifts round the year...
...citizenship. About an hour earlier, King had told the audience that Thompson was the only candidate who knew how to deal with those who had crossed the border illegally. "Fred Thompson says, 'You've got to send them back,'" King told the crowd of about 60, earning a hearty round of applause...
...that Chadian authorities resent. Public opinion in Chad, on the other hand, has broadly accused the court of letting a cabal of child traffickers working under humanitarian cover off lightly. Some local commentators fear the transfer of Zoé's Ark staffers back to France could set off another round of anti-French and anti-government rioting such as that witnessed ahead of the trial. At those riots, Chadians vented anger at white, European suspects receiving deferential treatment ordinary Chadians never would...
...power were handed to her by her husband, the outgoing chief executive. There were no questions about popular support: Fernandez was more than 20 percentage points ahead of her closest rival. Kirchner's own accession four years before had been much less smooth. Having lost in the first round of voting against former President Carlos Menem, he became president only when Menem bowed out of the second round, acceding to office with only 22% of the vote. So far, in the current scandal, the media and most of the public have gathered around to support the new President...
...charged with entertaining military top brass. Opposite are a lawyer and some business types. It's my turn to say something. I've played this game many times before with Chinese friends, but I'm lost in the whirlwind of jargon. Keen to avoid a bloodbath in the first round, I make a feeble plea for cool heads to prevail...