Word: swamp
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...anyone thinking China is going to be the engine that pulls the rest of the world out of the swamp should probably reconsider what Premier Wen Jiabao said during his visit to London in February: that for China to maintain its own economic growth "will be the biggest contribution to the whole world in the face of the financial crisis." (Read "China's Auto Bailout Takes a Different Route...
...Little Dutch Boy is running out of fingers. The water that threatens to swamp the international financial system is getting closer to breaching the walls and pouring in. A month ago that seemed inconceivable. Now the odds that the government will have to allow large operations like AIG go into bankruptcy are fairly high. The trouble with that is not what will happen to AIG. As the market found out with the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, many of the firms that are doing business with a very large financial institution when it becomes insolvent can have transactions worth billions of dollars...
...sources of that anger are not just economic. India has made little progress in resolving its decades-old dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir; in the meantime, the Indian troops who occupy it have turned the state into a swamp of resentment and virulent anti-Indian sentiment. The most raw grievance is the 2002 violence in the western state of Gujarat: nearly all of the 2,000 victims were Muslim, but only a handful of cases have been prosecuted. Gujarat, Kashmir and the 1992-93 anti-Muslim violence in Mumbai - in which hundreds were killed yet only three people convicted - have...
...Twist” and those in “Slumdog” is that Boyle allows his to grow up. Different actors play Jamal, Salim, and Latika at different ages; the youngest ones are universally adorable, particularly young Jamal (Tanay Chedda), who is cute even after crawling through a swamp of human feces. They’re never overly precocious or annoying—qualities that too many young American actors possess.When our heroes reach their late teens, Patel, Pinto, and Mittal take over. The three are barely known in India and even less so in America, but each delivers...
...25th probably has more alligators than voters, since it stretches west from the southern suburbs of Miami clear across the Everglades. But if Barack Obama can win there today - and his prospects look surprisingly strong - then Florida, the nation's largest swing state, will most likely be a swamp for John McCain...