Word: sentimentals
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...briefing in Sydney, Chinalco President Xiong Weiping tried to allay fears. "The transaction will in no way lead to any control of the natural resources of Australia," he said, adding that Rio's corporate strategies and management practices would also remain unchanged. For now at least, blatant anti-Chinese sentiment in Australia appears to be bottled up, and the investment is expected to go through...
Twenty years ago, when Lula was a firebrand unionist, that sentiment might have been dismissed as dreamy rhetoric. Not today. However the crisis ends, there is widespread agreement that developing economies such as Brazil, China and India will be crucial to ensuring that demand remains buoyant. Lula, too, has changed. These days he's a pragmatist who is as popular inside corporate boardrooms as he is in the favelas. On March 17, he will meet new U.S. President Barack Obama - a fellow moderate liberal who shares Lula's passion for green-energy ventures - in the White House. He will...
...qualities that helped eastern Europeans survive more than four decades of communist rule was a keen sense of irony. The sentiment was on show even as the old system of central control began to unravel and democracy and capitalism rushed in. The summer and fall of 1989 were full of passionate protestors and revolutionary honesty. But the millions of people who ripped open the Iron Curtain generally did so with an eyebrow cocked at what was replacing their decayed regimes. In the street markets of Warsaw and Prague in those early years of freedom, the symbols of communism - badges, pins...
...solidarity among seniors,” he said. “We’ve worked towards this thing together for almost two years now, and it’s really helpful to bring us together as a class.”“We recognize the sentiment,” Schiefsky said, “but we also feel very strongly that it is necessary to reach out to students.”—Staff writer Alex M. McLeese can be reach at amcleese@fas.harvard.edu...
...haunt this most natural of drives for everyone.“I’m a certified nurse,” Nayda sighs as she looks out a window. “What the hell am I doing here?” Indeed, this seems to be the underlying sentiment of all the characters. An education being the only sure way to leave the dirty streets, the perceived helplessness of her position can only be explained by the stalemate on progress that tradition has caused. Likenesses of the Virgin Mary coexist alongside portraits of nude women; “Fucking...