Word: strength
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...Gemma Luzzi, 65, a retired high school Italian teacher from Rome, recalled how Pavarotti's early performances gave new impetus to the classical form. But she wondered if the singer grew too attached to his fame. "He had a grand voice, but maybe he didn't have the strength to retire when he was on top. Maybe I'm a purist, but I never liked these duets (with pop singers). It kept him in the spotlight, so I guess he had fun doing them...
...TIME: Won't you leave a bit of a vacuum? Meles: No. Politics here is not personality based. It is ideologically driven and organization based. That's part of its strength. In our case with the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democracy Front (E.P.R.D.F.) it's a movement with very well articulated positions. And these things do not change because of personalities. I have been in the minority position when issues of war and peace were at stake. And I have found myself implementing a majority position that I completely and utterly disagree with...
...camaraderie in other ways as well. Every new employee of Tokyo p.r. firm Bilcom, for example, must spend a weekend making a three-minute digital slide show that shares a most moving personal experience. One worker revealed how 9/11 changed his career outlook; another talked about how she drew strength from a gay classmate who came out in college. President Shigeru Ota says the presentations are designed to "create a new type of family company [by] sharing life history ... delight, anger, sorrow and pleasure...
...saying that they had told him troop levels could come down in Iraq if stabilization continued at the current pace. But speaking to an ebullient crowd of service men and women Bush said, "When we begin to draw down troops in Iraq it will be from a position of strength and success, not from a position of fear and failure...
...told him that "If the security situation continues to improve the way it has we may be able to achieve the same objectives with fewer troops." Earlier, he told Marines, "When we begin to draw down troops in Iraq it will be from a position of strength and success, not from a position of fear and failure...