Word: stall
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...show results - and fast. For starters, Afghans say he must dismiss corrupt officials, enforce law and order, and use foreign-aid money to build the roads, dams, bridges and schools that he and the international community have long promised but never delivered. This would win back many Afghans and stall the Taliban's advance. But it won't be easy. To secure victory in the recent election, the President had to indebt himself to the very warlords who are strangling the country with their greed...
...life does not pause for the first month of school, and many campus organizations with immediate organizational needs face frustration as they try to start the year with no functional UC in place. Without the Finance Committee in session to process paperwork, many organizations have no choice but to stall business until their grant applications can be approved or denied. Similarly, student issues do not disappear from one year to the next, nor do they lack import during the first weeks of the year. While the UC president and vice president have a history of remaining on campus throughout...
...France and Germany's Q2 economic growth was also fueled by increased business investment financed in large part by governmental stimulus plans introduced late last year: $37 billion for France and $67 billion for Germany. But the economic engines revved up by those funds could still stall anew if organic activity doesn't pick up the slack. And that's not guaranteed to happen. Consumer spending also contributed to growth in France and Germany, thanks to falling prices. Those prices, though, will soon stabilize and start rising, which may act as a brake on growth in the near future...
...walk past stall after stall of glossy images, I feel that they accurately, collectively capture what the tourists see. As I check off all the sites I hit in Venice I wonder if in twenty years this “in person” aspect that we so desperately seek will make any difference. I don’t remember distinctive qualities about half the sites; my pictures are not nearly as good as the ones sold...
...were told that our big brother India is so rich, and we are dying of poverty and hunger. My father sells dahi wada [a popular fried bean dish] on a stall in Lahore, and we did not even get enough food to eat from his earnings ... If you give me regular meals and money, I will do the same that I did for them." - during videotaped interrogations the night he was arrested (ABC News...