Word: spinned
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...When critics later complained that Dubai had no realistic plans for paying off its debts, al-Maktoum told them to "shut up." But on Thursday, as Dubai's government announced it was seeking a halt to its debt repayments ahead of a $4 billion bill due on Dec 14, spin was at a minimum. So many worried investors tried to join a conference call for bond holders of Nakheel, a property company owned by Dubai World, the lines collapsed...
...Gordon had other ideas, running to the left side of the field and using a spin move to break a tackle...
...Upon his arrival in the Eternal City Thursday, Williams spoke at the Pontifical Gregorian University and tried to put a positive spin on the differences. "Do the arguments advanced about the 'essence' of male and female vocations and capacities stand on the same level as a theology derived more directly from scripture and (our) common theological heritage?" he asked. (Read: "Could the Pope Aid an Anglican Split...
Hence the move to initiate new sanctions, which won't realistically be put in place until early next year. But despite White House spin to the contrary, there's little reason to believe Russia and China are more likely to back meaningful sanctions in the wake of Obama's recent meetings with Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Hu Jintao than they were before those talks. While Medvedev urges Iran to be more cooperative and warns that further sanctions may be "inevitable" if it isn't, that's the perspective of a mediator. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, still presumed...
Going Rogue is part cagey spin, part earnest autobiography, part payback...