Word: units
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...which flies precisely in the direction he intends even as he sits atop an animal that could be moving from 25 to 35 miles per hour. Nick rides the horse with a knowing intimacy, as he rhythmically pumps his upper body so that the two work as one fluid unit. No longer is Nick an awkward ursine: he’s a four-legged creature with two abdomens...
...through the endless processions, photo ops and briefings, Obama's warmth rose above his cold. He grabbed throat lozenges for the motorcades. His staff began stocking his podiums with glasses of water. Behind the scenes, the White House medical unit was surely lending a hand too. At every stage, the President gave essay-length answers to even the wonkiest theoretical questions, though his eyes sometimes hung heavy with dark sags. By the time he made it to Ankara, on Day 7, he was mocking his own illness, reveling in a sort of victory. "In London, I sounded like...
...experience of the Americans fighting in the Korengal Valley illustrates how difficult the war in Afghanistan is - but also how it can still be won. Over the past nine months, Bravo Company, a 150-strong unit of the 1st Battalion 26th Infantry Regiment, lost seven men in the Korengal while trying to cool down a toxic cauldron of local insurgents, Taliban leaders, foreign jihadis and al-Qaeda members that has some calling this cedar-studded gorge the "Valley of Death." The villages of Korengal have had their losses too, but they are deaths mourned in secret. Elders say the Americans...
...China's turn to show it's no pushover. In the G-20 run-up, Zhou Xiaochuan, China's central bank governor, published a paper suggesting that alternative global currencies, like Special Drawing Rights - a unit of exchange used by the International Monetary Fund - be considered to replace the U.S. dollar as the world's de facto reserve currency. While some Washington officials rejected the proposal as impractical, China's leaders have been taking steps to show just how nervous they are about a weaker dollar as the U.S. runs up massive deficits to shore up its crumbling economy...
...reserve currency, in place of one issued by a specific nation - in other words, the dollar. "The frequency and increasing intensity of financial crises," Zhou said, "suggests the costs of such a system to the world may have exceeded its benefits." Zhou recommended turning Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the unit of account used by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), into the premier international currency. Then a U.N. panel of economists led by Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate, concluded that a reformed financial system with a new No. 1 international currency would help bring greater strength and equity to the global...