Word: solid
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...sure, the two stock market slumps in 2006 and 2008 created negative wealth effects. High-net-worth businessmen have been hit by the current global financial crisis. But there is no doubt that the macroeconomic picture is solid and healthy. Over the next five years Saudi Arabia has outlined a $400 billion spending program. In a decade or thereabouts, Saudi Arabia will become a $1 trillion economy and will be better placed than the rest in the region to capitalize on its knowledge and strengths. During the boom years, some critics said Saudi Arabia should become more like Dubai...
...West Wing are working here is that I've got a great professional staff. I think I've hired some of the best people, and they're real workers out there. My policy director is top-notch. My communications team is top-notch. My chief of staff is solid. And they have roles in the West Wing. They're engaged in the meetings. And I think that that's the best way to make sure that the East and the West Wing are working together and we don't ... that's not a part ... that's not a part...
...that if I come in with straight expectations, then I don't see the opportunities. I just know that about me, right. So I try to sort of think in terms of there are things that I need to do that are important: I need my kids to be solid. I was more worried about them than anything - anything. How I was going to feel, how people were going to ... none of that mattered. I worried most and felt the deepest sense of pull in making sure that my kids felt good about this and that they felt good about...
...feel like this is ... what the East Wing has developed, I think, is a solid beginning. I care about the issues that I'm working on, I love my team, I like the relationship that I have with them, I like the separation that I have between work and family, I like the connection between the East Wing staff and the West Wing staff, and the fact that voices are being heard, and that communication is clear and that there is respect across the lines, and that, you know, people are moving in a way to try to complement work...
Women, however, are not a solid ideological bloc. Reformist women like Ebtekar and Sadr stand in almost direct opposition to would-be presidential candidates like Bayat who, despite her outspokenness, espouses a different vision of women's rights. A representative in Iran's majlis (or legislature), she and her female colleagues reinstituted gender segregation in the seating of the parliament. They worked to reverse efforts by female reformist MPs in the previous session to join the U.N.'s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Such membership would have obliged the Iranian government to abolish...