Word: telegraphed
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...commentary in the fall; the minister may prefer to keep a distance from the dealings of rich Russians. But Lebedev, still only 49, is no ordinary oligarch. He even rejects the label with its connotations of bling-bling lifestyle and financial secrecy, and in September confided to the Daily Telegraph that the economic slump had shrunk his fortune by two thirds. (See pictures of London's financial crisis...
...nation's premier experts on the financial world, Peter Spencer, chief economic adviser to the Ernst & Young ITEM Club, said that the time to save the U.K. from severe GDP contraction may have come and gone. According to The Daily Telegraph, The Government and the Bank of England have got "days not weeks" to take action to revive the economy or face a prolonged depression...
...symptom of that imbalance. "I was always convinced that when Blair thought that he'd moved Bush to a different place on this, he hadn't done so at all," Lord Levy, Blair's envoy to the Middle East, said in a recent interview with the Sunday Telegraph. "Once Blair was off the phone or Blair was out of Washington, Bush would then listen to others...
...hike than all shipping increases in 2008), with a stamp price jump to follow in May. The decline could also put your local letter carrier out of a job, and it has even stoked fears that the centuries-old Postal Service could one day go the way of the telegraph...
...Obama's choices for departments like HUD and Energy telegraph his intent to change housing and energy policies, just as the creation of HUD and Energy were supposed to telegraph the importance of housing and energy problems. But it certainly hasn't solved those problems. Just once, it would be nice to see a Cabinet appointee - maybe a Commerce Secretary or an Agriculture Secretary or a drug czar - say that his or her department's mission was obsolete, or that it certainly didn't deserve Cabinet status...