Word: topness
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...nation can ... scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income." Seventy-five years on, GDP feels like an idea whose time has finally passed. "GDP measures, in a certain sense, how much stuff we can produce that we can drop on an enemy," Alan Krueger - now a top-ranked economist in the Obama Administration - said at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) World Forum in 2007. "It's natural in the post?Cold War era that we would turn to other measures of how well our society is doing...
Aitor Elizarán Aguilar, the political leader of the Basque separatist group ETA, and a top aide were captured in France on Oct. 19 amid a crackdown against the organization. The arrests followed the detention earlier this month of 10 accused members of a banned, ETA-linked political party; three military leaders have also been snared in the past year. Authorities have intensified their pursuit of the Spanish group since a 2006 bombing at Madrid's airport. ETA has been blamed for more than 820 deaths since...
...people in the first three weeks of October, Pakistan's government launched a new offensive in insurgent-plagued South Waziristan that it dubbed Operation Path of Riddance. Pakistan's army chief requested the support of the area's Mehsud tribe, whose members fill many of the Taliban's top posts. Thousands of civilians fled the region, where 30,000 troops were fighting...
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