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...same time, international confidence in the government's ability to pay its $12 trillion debt is tenuous, and Obama has yet to take any clear steps, beyond rhetoric, to reassure investors. His 2010 budget, announced last February, projected medium-term deficits that even Obama's aides agree are unsustainable. And by most accounts, his health care reform package, if it passes, is unlikely to yield the clear long-term savings that Obama once suggested...
...construction of minarets won’t stop harmful practices like genital cutting—the connection between the two is tenuous to say the least. The use of minarets is not even limited to fundamentalist Islamic groups. Therefore, the results of the referendum serve no purpose other than needlessly alienating and insulting the Muslim community...
...effort to sell its Swedish subsidiary Saab has fallen apart, jeopardizing the division's future, which had grown increasingly tenuous over the years as its American owner slid into insolvency and bankruptcy. Saab was tentatively scheduled to begin operating as an independent company starting Jan. 1, 2009, once GM's sale to Koenigsegg Group AB, a Swedish maker of exotic vehicles, had closed. (See pictures: "GM's Eight Great Hopes...
...though, with the first presidential election since the Orange Revolution approaching, Ukraine seems to be in danger of losing the tenuous progress it has made since it broke off from the Soviet Union 18 years ago. The country’s economy was devastated by the recession and the partnership between Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko, his prime minister, is now riven by feuding and electoral politics. Especially in light of recent Russian attempts to influence Ukrainian politics, the international community needs to make an effort to show support for maintaining democratic government in Ukraine and to demonstrate its commitment...
...them about her character over the summer—planning for the game has been in the works for months—and Alessandro and Betsy loved the idea. So they developed a socioeconomic logic based upon it. In their expansion of the idea, dwarves and orcs have a tenuous trade relationship in which the orcs produce “agriculture and kickass,” while the dwarves produce metal goods, according to Alessandro...