Word: steps
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...saying the UAW has been singled out to shoulder an unfair burden in the automakers' survival plans. "Management got us into this mess and now we're supposed to get them out of it," griped one union official familiar with the bargaining. "I'm hoping Obama's going to step in." (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
Incoming fellow James O’Shea, who was previously editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times, said he relished the prospect of taking a step back from day-to-day journalism to think deeply...
...audit goes a step further, concluding that some of the ceramic ballistic inserts - bulletproof plates, in layman's terms - in the armor are actually defective. The IG focused on "first article testing," by which any design flaws are spotted and rectified during the manufacturing process. Such testing is meant to confirm that a product meets Army specifications. The audit says the Army didn't perform or score the tests consistently. As a result, the audit report says, "we believe that three of the eight ballistic-insert designs that passed first article testing actually failed." (See pictures of U.S. troops...
...Israeli concessions, however minor. The Mitchell appointment and the Al Arabiya interview are of a piece: respect will be paid to Muslims by the Obama Administration. The long-term goal is to weaken the regional tyrants and extremists by depriving them of the Great Satan caricature - the first step toward a more plausible U.S. policy in the area, the threshold necessary for creative negotiating to begin...
...devolved back to Stormont. Victims and survivors from Catholic and Protestant communities mingled in a stuffy conference room at the Europa Hotel, itself targeted several times by terrorist bombers but these days better known as a venue for conferences and weddings. "We now need to take the next step", said Lord Robin Eames, the former Anglican Primate of All Ireland, and co-chair with former priest Denis Bradley of the independent Consultative Group on the Past (CGP). After 18 months of deliberations, the CGP was ready to unveil a range of proposals designed to acknowledge, and where possible alleviate...