Word: spinning
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...Hummer brand, however, could be on the road to extinction if GM cannot soon finish a deal with China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, the only bidder for the controversial brand. GM announced plans to spin it off while reorganizing under bankruptcy protection this past summer. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
Alex W. Palmer ’12, a member of the IOP forum committee, said he enjoyed the event despite Uribe’s somewhat evasive responses. “People like him got to where they are in the world by knowing how to spin questions to say what they want to say,” Palmer noted...
...program. Then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who approved Chandrayaan-I at the Independence Day function on August 15, 2003, said he wanted India's space program to become one of the best in the world. Supporters of the program argued that a lunar mission would provide untold technological spin-offs. Many of those same enthusiasts now say they have been vindicated. Operating a satellite at a distance ten times beyond anything they had done before has given the ISRO valuable experience in hi-tech spacecraft, rocketry and advanced remote navigation technology. At $79 million, the program's budget also...
...produce sufficient highly enriched uranium for one nuclear weapon. It seems as if the Iranian leadership may have pulled the same trick again. Perhaps Merkel really did have a more pressing engagement - the German embassy did not immediately return calls requesting an explanation. But for all the positive spin U.S. officials had put on Russia's hints of greater willingness to support new sanctions, Medvedev's absence from the podium on Friday spoke far more loudly of the difficulty the U.S. faces in mustering a durable coalition for sanctions. Without Russia, it will be very difficult to build a united...
...mean that people should always embrace the person. People make their own decisions. With regard to the agitations and provocations created by some western governments, that is correct, they too tried to actually portray the chaos as legal and as a positive trend. They gave it a positive spin. Specifically British officials from the government did these acts. They were involved. We are not saying that they designed and planned what transpired in the elections in Iran, but what I mean is that they were involved. Interfering in the domestic affairs of other countries is illegal, and not only that...