Word: vocalized
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...around the world. The members are the seven Fed governors, plus five of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Bank presidents at a time. (Two governors' seats are currently vacant; a Ph.D. in economics will help if you'd like to apply.) The remaining bank chiefs are nonvoting but vocal participants...
...public pronouncements on diversity--and his vocal lobbying in favor of affirmative action--have won him praise...
...security interests. Most members of the Senate concur. The problem is that both parties in the 435-seat House of Representatives are deeply divided over China. Republicans are suspicious of Beijing, which many see as the ultimate threat to U.S. national security. Democrats, influenced by Big Labor, have been vocal in their opposition to the bill. And members of both parties are concerned that the loss of the annual trade review will remove any leverage Washington has over China's abysmal human rights record...
...Love, a single so irresistibly sexy that it managed to make early skeptics stop thinking about Don Johnson and Eddie Murphy and all the other very valid reasons actors shouldn't sing. Jerkins' song Say My Name went to No. 1 for the vocal quartet Destiny's Child, and he also produced the most interesting track on Oops!...I Did It Again (Jive), the anticipated new CD from Britney Spears that's due out this week. Meanwhile, off and on for a year now, Jerkins has been working with the biggest pop star of all: Michael Jackson...
...hopeful about the future, it is because I see the increasingly vocal demand for democracy in the world and the growing understanding of the need for social justice. Democracy is recovering some of its lost ground in Asia, Latin America and even Africa. Gender equity and basic education are beginning to receive more attention in India, Bangladesh and elsewhere. I am not unconditionally hopeful, but certainly conditionally so. We must, however, take a sufficiently broad view of poverty to make sure the poor have reason for hope...