Word: toughness
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...raves as Adriana La Cerva in The Sopranos. That said, her chances of getting whacked might be about the same. De Matteo, 37, replaces the Housewife gap left by Nicollette Sheridan in a much heralded departure last season. She recently took time out from playing Wisteria Lane's new tough broad to talk with TIME...
...lived in New York, and we've never lived in the suburbs before. So we're trying something completely new. I don't think it's witness protection or any Mafia relationship. She's far from that world, but I can be totally wrong. But she's as tough as anyone in the Mafia...
...size them up - which one of the housewives is going to give the best fight in real life? They're all pretty tough in their own way. Eva Longoria might be my toughest challenge. I don't know if I could take her. And Marcia's pretty tall. Teri wins triathlons. And they all seem to exercise pretty regularly. On the show, having Bree go to town on me would be my favorite thing ever. And another thing, Bree shoots guns...
...critical issue that still needs to be coordinated. One of the risks is that inflation could soar due to the explosion of national debt in many countries during the crisis. And early signs suggest governments have wildly different strategies. In Germany, for example, Chancellor Angela Merkel promised tough action to bring down the budget deficit, while in France, President Nicolas Sarkozy is looking to add to the country's debt though a huge government-bond issue next year. Such divergences are already causing alarm. Unless exit strategies also address the long-term sustainability of public finance and other challenges, Stark...
...came the Putin era, in which state-orchestrated television stoked fears of a return to the Yeltsin era (lest the masses not entrust their president with lots of power). Then, in May 2008, came Dmitry Medvedev, causing many to fret that the new president would not be as tough or undemocratic as his predecessor. Then came last September's Lehman Brothers collapse, triggering a global financial meltdown; the downturn fueled fears in Russia that the country was facing another crisis a la 1998, when tens of millions saw their pensions wiped out by inflation and Russia did indeed look...