Word: saxon
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...combined in one person a variety of European constituencies. As the former Prime Minister of Portugal - a fascist dictatorship until the 1970s - he was expected to understand the aspirations of the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe; as an economic liberal and an Atlanticist - but not an Anglo-Saxon - he should have been able to bridge the gap between new and old Europe that opened up before the Iraq war. Above all, he was a fresh face. The two previous presidencies, led by Jacques Santer of Luxembourg and Romano Prodi of Italy, had left many disappointed and hoping...
...roots of this rage can be found in place and time. The city's Sutherland Shire, where the troubles first occurred, is a close cousin of the O.C., 4,000 miles across the Pacific. The ?shire?, predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon, and insular, is unlike the rest of Sydney, which has for 60 years peacefully absorbed waves of immigrants from Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Each summer, the shire's surf beaches attract hordes of visitors from the immigrant, working-class suburbs of southwestern Sydney. Not all visitors are welcome. Some behave very badly. Policing has been...
...present unemployment has reached nearly 12 percent of the workforce, or five million people. The CDU offered up a new candidate with a project of painful-but-healthy reform. Germany could either give the much-hyped Angela Merkel a mandate, or it would reconfirm its distrust of Anglo-Saxon-style liberalism and continue to adhere to the continental social-democratic model, permitting the incumbent chancellor Gerhard Schrder to sally on. In the event, such a choice proved too much for the Germans, and today the countrys direction remains anyones guess, although stasis is perhaps most likely...
...town of Limoges, a famed center for French porcelain, Gilles Schnepp has a perspective different from the government's anti--Anglo-Saxon mind-set. He is chief executive of Legrand, a $3 billion electrical equipment company that was acquired late in 2002 by KKR and French group Wendel in France's biggest buyout. Legrand had been in the process of merging with a French competitor, Schneider Electric, and suddenly found itself in limbo after the European Union vetoed the deal on antitrust grounds...
...What made us lose was fair play," Delanoe said from Singapore. In Paris, Pascal Bildstein, vice president of the French Triathlon Federation, was more explicit: "When Princess Anne promises all the IOC members an audience with the Queen, it's just not ethical. This was a victory for Anglo-Saxon lobbying, and a loss for real Olympic values...