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...discussion, partly due to concern about their potential impact on markets. SWF "investment policies, minor comments or rumors could spark volatility," said Clay Lowery, assistant secretary for international affairs in the U.S. Treasury Department, in a speech last summer. "It is hard to dismiss entirely the possibility of unseen, imprudent risk management with broader consequences." Even U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton weighed in recently, saying in a Financial Times interview SWFs pose a potential threat to U.S. economic sovereignty. "I think vigilance is in order when the investor is a foreign government," Clinton said. "My principal concern is to increase...
...moratorium distract us from the larger issues at stake. Although lethal injection is less gruesome than other methods of execution, it is no less brutal. Research indicates that the anesthetic can wear off, while another drug keeps the condemned paralyzed, thus giving the illusion of serenity, underscored with massive unseen pain. The drugs are known to take anywhere between seven minutes to two hours to be effective, and finding a suitable vein is often a long, torturous ordeal. It is stupefying to fathom that lethal injection, which has been used for almost 25 years, is only now being seen...
...questions went on, she opened up even more, having conversations with the audience and making jokes about herself in a very British, self-deprecating way. When a voice resonated through the theater from an unseen source, she exclaimed "God...And they say I don't believe in you," alluding to the many people who claim her books are anti-Christian. It was clear that no matter how "bereaved" she felt when she finished writing Deathly Hallows, she loved talking freely about it to so many dedicated fans. After being careful and secretive for so long, she now went above...
...behind closed doors and outside the purview of the average eye. And so on a recent Thursday at the Neiman Marcus store in downtown Dallas, what might have come across as a pristine but lightly traveled main floor was in fact a bustling $4 billion juggernaut in action, the unseen hum of luxury being served up like nowhere else...
...government, New Zealander Bruce Connew's eldest daughter was dating an Indian-Fijian; her sister was dating an indigenous Fijian. When the two young men spoke of Fiji, he recalls, "it was as if they were talking about two different countries." Connew, a documentary photographer, decided to put the unseen Fiji back in the picture...