Word: short
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...current love-in with the state will be short-lived. Every time there has been a perceived crisis of capitalism in recent decades, the government's economic role has swelled. But inevitably, this process gets thrown into reverse and the free market stages a rousing comeback. That's because governments can screw up economies just as effectively - in fact, more effectively - than free markets...
Obama also nominated Timothy F. Geithner, current chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as Treasury Secretary, a position which Summers held under President Clinton from 1999 to 2001 and for which he was short-listed this time around...
...Anbar provincial government in the last election, when most of the sheiks boycotted the vote. Now the chieftains want to supplant the IIP as the main voice of Iraq's Sunnis. Backing the SOFA and al-Maliki allows them to distinguish themselves from the IIP. The sheiks, in short, are playing democratic politics...
...speeches have one redeeming quality: they're short. After the al-Hais brothers have spoken, all that's required of the other speakers is to agree as quickly as possible. Then it's back to the singing and dancing, and now some of the sheiks are coaxed to join in. A poet, clad incongruously in leather jacket and trousers, loudly declaims the virtues of patriotism and warns against those who would seek to hurt Iraq. Again, there are knowing smirks all around: he's talking, of course, about...
...limit. We are robbing Peter to pay Paul. South Kivu [a province of Congo] is tense. So is Ituri [another province in the country], and we have the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that originated in northern Uganda] in the northeast. We are doing short-term reinforcements, but we simply do not have an effective rapid-reaction force...