Word: strengthing
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...Sarkozy holding steady with a 55% approval rating. Yet a further test of will comes on Nov. 20, when hundreds of thousands of state employees are scheduled to protest over 22,000 public-sector job cuts slated for 2008. And more antireform demonstrations will follow. But Sarkozy can draw strength from the immensity of the stakes: he knows that caving in now could mean surrendering the rest of his presidency...
...Madison game, but it’s not good. We’re not good. And it’s mental. It’s not even physical, it’s mental.”From there, though, Harvard took control. The Crimson’s size and strength in the post—junior Liz Tindal, senior Adrian Budischak, junior Katie Rollins, and junior Emma Moretzsohn—kept Siena out of the post and left the Saints hoisting jump shots and three pointers. “The big question marks about us are our defense...
...need to continue reforming their economies to boost productivity, reduce the relatively high cost of labor and find better investment uses for a huge pool of savings that is sitting in bank accounts that yield very low returns. France's savings rate is higher even than Japan's. "The strength of the euro highlights European structural problems; it doesn't cause them," Blanque said...
...Strength in numbers will be the team mantra this year for head coach Tommy Amaker and his newly revitalized Crimson squad.After running with a perilously thin rotation through most of last season, the Crimson’s lack of depth finally got the best of Harvard’s men, as they dropped six of their last eight Ivy matches to close out the season. But one year later, the Crimson finds itself ready to jump on the hardwood with a surprising new weapon in its artillery: a deep bench.Bolstered by a promising freshman class and a deep sophomore unit...
...producing. “We have had a happy time in the financial markets, which have led to some considerable excesses which are going to have to be repaired. We’re going through that process right now.” Volcker expressed doubts about the strength of the US dollar. “A truly global financial and trade system depends upon a stable single currency. You can argue that the dollar has de facto provided that, but I think that what’s going on now raises some questions,” he said. He also...