Word: turning
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...punk star like Sid Vicious, whom he supposedly took as one of the models for his character. The Joker observes no rules, pursues no grand scheme; he's the terrorist as improv artist. Evil is his tenor sax, Armageddon his melody. Why, he might blow up a hospital or turn ordinary people into mass murderers to save their own lives...
...best performance this decade, encouraging more optimistic assessments of Europe's underlying strength. Behind that showing is an export boom, as Germany's traditional industries such as machinery and machine tools benefit from a flood of orders from China, Russia, India and the Middle East. That in turn is driving investment at home, and has created tens of thousands of jobs. But the latest figures suggest the manufacturing boom has peaked - and the big question is, How pronounced will the slowdown be? On July 4, the government announced that orders to manufacturers dropped by 0.9% in May. Most economists...
...find it hard to imagine that many people would want to continue Bush's economic policies with McCain, and I will keep encouraging them not to. I also think there has to be a lot of pressure on Obama or his economic populism may only turn out to be skin deep. We need to keep pushing him on that...
...road dips and rises through the Hebron hills, white etched with the glowing green of vineyards, the turn-off to Edna village is marked by the grey, concrete watchtower of an Israeli checkpoint. But it doesn't deter Israeli-Arab lawyer Khaled Kasab Mahameed from his quixotic mission: He has come to the West Bank to educate Palestinians about the Jewish Holocaust...
...sage have endured long stretches in Israeli prisons. Twice in the past few years, bulldozers had rumbled out from the nearby Israeli checkpoint to demolish the two-story home and ancient vineyards of our host, geologist Taleb al-Harithi. Armed with an Israeli court order, he managed to turn the bulldozers away, but he fears their return at any moment...