Word: roundness
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Trade always matters. But it matters now more than ever, with the global economy slumping and the U.S. in need of poorer countries as partners in the war against terrorism. Right now there is nothing more important on the economic agenda than securing a new round of measures to reduce trade barriers. Trade ministers have just met in the Persian Gulf city of Doha, Qatar, to work out the outlines of such a round. They need to move fast: the World Trade Organization estimates that in 2001 the growth in the volume of world trade in goods will be just...
...this week appeared to gain greater domestic influence over the issue with the replacement of Iran's pragmatic top nuclear negotiator by a key Ahmadinejad ally. After President Bush invoked the specter of World War III to press the urgency of stopping Iran, the Administration followed up with another round of punitive measures...
...What are Iranian intentions?" Crocker asked. "It's a question very much on my mind." Still, even the murky indications he's sensing are enough to encourage Crocker to press forward with another round of stilted conversations with Iranian officials. Crocker expects the working group of U.S. and Iranian officials set up after the last ambassadorial meeting on Iraq's security situation to convene again, although no date has been...
...hardly for hermits. The Washington Kayak Club, based in Seattle, boasts some 700 members and sponsors everything from fall outings on the Cedar River to viewings of the sockeye salmon swimming upstream to clinics at local pools on how to roll your boat over in the water. Year-round festivals include the weeklong Calusa Blueway Paddling Festival, which starts Oct. 27 in Fort Myers, Fla., and features more than 50 group paddles. You'll always be the master of your kayak, but it's more fun when a paddling buddy comes along for the ride...
...their voice as one man and they said, Let us go. And behold we went to the city of the Philistines, and did serenade their daughters, and came home about the third hour. And the fame of the Pierians did wax exceedingly great, and did reach all the places round about Cambridge.”The evening revelry so irritated the University administration that the group was asked to disband. Gassett ignored the official request.After an uncertain first century, The Crimson congratulated the Sodality on the group’s centennial in 1908.“The hundredth anniversary...