Word: vocalic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...controls appears to be Li Jiaxiang, who in late December left his post as CEO of CNAC to take over as China's top airline regulator. Li has been a vocal opponent of allowing foreign carriers greater access to China's skies and has encouraged domestic airlines to raise their overseas market share by opening more long-haul routes. His appointment "set the stage for more consolidation and probably less foreign investment," Pinkham says. In early January, Li announced that the CAAC will not consider applications for new airlines before 2010. China's existing 22 carriers are also banned from...
...Obama isn't the only one who has taken issue with the former President's suddenly vocal role on the trail. Some past and present Democratic leaders, including former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, have complained that it is inappropriate for the former President to be playing such a nakedly partisan role in the nomination race. (Daschle, it must be noted, is backing Obama.) Some Democrats were particularly taken aback after Clinton called Obama's candidacy a "fairy tale" in New Hampshire, though Clinton later recanted, saying he was referring to Obama's position on the war in Iraq. South...
...Still, Hillary Clinton's triumph in Nevada, where Bill Clinton was particularly vocal, seemed to show that, in the final equation, her husband does more good than harm. And whether it's Bill or Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail doesn't seem to make much difference to South Carolina voters, who seemed as much, if not more, excited to see the former President. Back at Lizzard's Thicket, Caitlin Schmidt was treated to the full force of Bill Clinton's charm. The 36-year-old homemaker, who had been deciding between Obama and Clinton, was swayed. "This...
...Energy-intensive sectors such as aluminum, steel and cement have been vocal about their fears that they could lose business to countries with less stringent rules on carbon emissions. As a result, the plan raises the prospect of carbon tariffs on imports from countries that fail to sign up to a global climate change deal, such as the U.S. and China. "We want industry to remain in Europe. We don't want to export our jobs to other parts of the world," Barroso said...
Research on gay relationships is young. The first study to observe how gays and lesbians interact with their partners during conversations (monitoring facial expressions, vocal tones, emotional displays and physical reactions like changes in heart rate) wasn't published until 2003, even though such studies have long been a staple of hetero-couple research. John Gottman, a renowned couples therapist who was then at the University of Washington, and Robert Levenson, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, led a team that evaluated 40 same-sex couples and 40 straight married couples. The psychologists concluded that gays...