Word: tanked
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...weeks ago a group of Pakistani journalists and foreign correspondents based in Pakistan gathered to meet visiting representatives of the Washington-based think tank Center for American Progress. Its members were "on a listening tour," they said, and wanted to hear the journalists' perspectives on the U.S. and Pakistan. The response was caustic. Correspondents and editors belonging to Pakistan's top local print and TV outlets let loose with accusations and complaints, particularly about American concerns that Pakistan was failing as a state. "There is no Taliban threat," said one Pakistani journalist. "Do you really think a bunch of hillbillies...
...What keeps companies investing in animation and makes the genre the most reliable in today's market is the fact that cartoon features tend to do terrific business worldwide. (Action films with little talk also hit it big in foreign climes; language-dependent American comedies usually tank.) Box-office reports focus narrowly on the Sunday numbers in U.S. and Canadian theaters. But euros and rupees and yen are good money too, and sometimes movies that aren't quite blockbusters in North America make the bulk of their gross abroad...
...what is at stake. Instead, power is split among the big political groups - the conservatives, the liberals and the socialists - who rule largely by consensus. "This makes it difficult for people to see how their vote matters," says Karel Lannoo, CEO at the Centre for European Policy Studies think tank. "Since they do not do anything like elect a European government, they do not feel they can change anything...
...What's perhaps most unusual about the report is that it was produced by a group of Chinese scholars working for a Beijing-based think tank. The 22-page document is based on research compiled over a month by four graduate students from Peking University, one of China's most prestigious schools. It was released by the Open Constitution Initiative, a six-year-old NGO run by Chinese lawyers. The group focuses on issues such as last year's tainted milk powder scandal and reform of China's household registration policy, which limits migration from the countryside to cities...
...Russian leadership is very apprehensive about what it sees as Western moves designed to tear Ukraine away from Russia," says Dmitry Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, an independent think tank in Moscow. "Their central foreign policy goal is to create a power center around Russia. Any move by the West towards the former Soviet republics is seen as damaging Russia's interests...