Word: use
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...before anyone's so much as bought a ticket for today's shows, and are therefore based only on Friday and Saturday ticket sales. The prediction of final weekend grosses thus involve much entrail-reading, analysis of the success of earlier films in the same genre and the possible use of Ouija boards. The tense to be used in these stories really shouldn't be the past ("won") but the future perfect ("will have") or, more cautiously, the conditional...
...Pope Benedict in the Holy Land Re "The Pontiff and The Jews" [May 18]: Pope Benedict XVI is doing his job as a spiritual leader by recognizing both the Israelis and the Palestinians and their religions. Let's not use the past to sabotage the future of the peace initiative in the Middle East. Meg Hillert, Dallas...
...plotting their slaughter. Hearing an account of the funeral, Adams Oloo, a politics lecturer at the University of Nairobi, nods and says: "There is no healing." That's often the case in Africa. Kenyans want peace. But their leaders thrive instead on enduring enmities and division. "Political leaders use ethnicity as an instrument to achieve power and their goals," says Oloo. Which means, adds a Western diplomat in the city, "There is no good guy in this scenario...
...most recent Fed data, use of revolving credit, like credit cards, was down 11% from the month before. Non-revolving credit - including loans for cars, boats, mobile homes, education and vacations - was off by 5.3%. The amount of outstanding consumer credit is now about what...
...judge his morality as an ordinary citizen, rather it aims to show how, as Prime Minister, he is trying to turn the realm of democratic politics into a simple continuation of his friendships and entertainment." The paper noted that prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the alleged use of the Prime Minister's official airplane to bring guests to private parties at Villa Certosa (allegations that Berlusconi has denied...