Word: sterne
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...part of Zapatero's bid to sustain the momentum of his government's efforts at reform. Made up of 14 world-renowned experts - including Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz; Australian anti-nuclear expert and Nobel Laureate Helen Caldicott; ex-Senior Vice-President of the World Bank, Nicolas Stern; and Maria Joao Rodrigues, an architect of the E.U.'s Lisbon Agenda - the council offered a slate of ideas that, if put into action, would position Spain on the cutting edge of international, environmental, economic and social justice policy...
...now?and both have a similar problem: trying to reach past that base, especially to the working-class (white) men who may well decide the general election in states like Ohio. Clinton's "beef" may prove the more sturdy product in a party that thinks, as labor leader Andrew Stern once said, that electing a President is College Bowl, but it's really American Idol. Obama may be inspirational, but Clinton is now inspired. "I listened to you," she said at the beginning of her spare, elegant acceptance speech. "And in the process, I found my own voice...
...both have a similar problem: trying to reach past that base, especially to the working-class (white) men who may well decide the general election in states like Ohio. Clinton's "beef" may prove the more sturdy product in a party that thinks, as labor leader Andrew Stern once said, that electing a President is College Bowl, but it's really American Idol. Obama may be inspirational, but Clinton is now inspired. "I listened to you," she said at the beginning of her spare, elegant acceptance speech. "And in the process, I found my own voice...
...done by 2012," said ACEA president Sergio Marchionne. "The announced legislative framework will not be ready before 2009: this leaves the industry too little time to apply by 2012; the cars of 2012 will be on the drawing table tomorrow." The group also points to studies, including the Stern report, which suggest that vehicle technology is one of the least cost-effective ways of bringing down CO2 emissions from transport...
...seems as simple as the production, which is reminiscent of the televised plays of the 1950s. Addie (Lisa Lucas) is a precocious fifth-grader in small-town Nebraska in 1946. She lives with her grandmother - a moccasin-wearing "character" played with wise, Everygrandma affection by Mildred Natwick - and her stern working-class father, brought to dark life by the legendary Jason Robards in a role of angry middle-aged despair more often found in Eugene O'Neill plays. Addie's mother died after giving birth to her; and her father still carries the pain as well as a bitter unspoken...