Word: toed
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After reading the TIME 100, I came to several conclusions. First, the world is apparently being shaped by virtual unknowns. Second, the real influential people seem to be the ones writing the essays. Third, aren't the media that report on what most affects Americans among the most influential? Curiously...
LUO PING, a director general at China's Banking Regulatory Commission, saying Beijing will continue to buy U.S. Treasury bonds despite concerns about the dollar. China has nearly $2 trillion in foreign-currency reserves --FEBRUARY
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, who had previously likened citizens protesting the results of the nation's disputed presidential election to "dirt and dust" --JUNE
JIM DEMINT, Republican Senator from South Carolina, comparing President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul the nation's health care system to the battle that dethroned Napoléon Bonaparte --JULY
HILLARY CLINTON, snapping at a student who asked during a press conference in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, what "Mr. Clinton" thought of a Chinese loan offer to the country. According to State Department officials, the student said afterward that he had meant to ask what "Mr. Obama" thought of...