Word: tortuousness
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...fights over shareholders' rights have even led to bloody clashes between riot troops and local workers. "If you want to empty a boardroom on Wall Street," quips an American investment banker in Moscow, "just say the word Russia." For too many foreigners, investing in Russia has proved to be tortuous and hugely expensive. Just ask the folks at BP Amoco. Last fall the company nearly saw its $484 million investment in Russian oil giant Sidanko all but disappear in a maze of Russian corporate shenanigans. In a complex scheme with a brutishly simple result, Sidanko's most prodigious subsidiary...
...stronger hand to push his reform agenda," says Dowell, "the real struggle for a new Iran may be going on behind the walls of the seminaries where more and more clerics are challenging the conservatives' view of the extent of the clergy's political authority." That's a tortuous process to which ordinary Iranians can't directly contribute. But Friday's poll gives them an opportunity to send the mullahs a message...
Peace talks are to resume on January 19 after a tortuous week of negotiations in Shepherdstown, W. Va., wrapped up Monday without getting much beyond establishing an agenda. "Most of the first week was spent arguing over what would be negotiated first," says TIME State Department correspondent Doug Waller. "The Syrians wanted to begin with discussing new borders; the Israelis refused to talk borders until negotiations were well under way on security arrangements. They didn't get down to substantive talks until the last day, so they still have a lot to do." And judging by the fact that President...
...have disposable income and impressionable personalities and I want to wear your clothes. I'll be a walking advertisement for you! I'll be a.... You'll look damn good on MTV when you have a different designer outfit on every day. And more importantly, six months laterafter your tortuous sojournyou pack your boxes to send home with six months worth of designer outfits....Jennifer Lopez recently proclaimed that she could sell coffee using my rear-end as a ledge. And she's trying to get respect as an actress?....We sent two writers to cover WWF Smackdown at ringside...
...viewersviewers who tend to have disposable income and impressionable personalitiesand I want to wear your clothes. Ill be a walking advertisement for you! Ill be a.... Youll look damn good on MTV when you have a different designer outfit on every day. And more importantly, six months laterafter your tortuous sojournyou pack your boxes to send home with six months worth of designer outfits....Jennifer Lopez recently proclaimed that she could sell coffee using my rear-end as a ledge. And shes trying to get respect as an actress?....We sent two writers to cover WWF Smackdown at ringside this...