Word: within
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even within the E.U., there are vastly different attitudes toward spending. Some member states are pumping huge sums into the economy: Spain's $115 billion public-works-led program is equivalent to 8.1% of GDP, while the Bank of England has just begun a $100 billion bank-note print run. Others, such as the Czech Republic and Estonia, are holding back because they don't believe in jump-starting their economies with stimulus packages - or because, like Italy, their ragged budgets cannot stretch to offer more than...
...Schmooze is certainly one of, if not the liveliest of all the house e-mail lists. If you post something to Schmooze (the pretentious name of the Adams e-mail list), someone is probably going to respond. If you need fishnets and superglue, someone will offer them to you within minutes of your Schmooze request. And Adams residents always have something to say about a topic. See the great wrap/sandwich debate...
...intelligence gathered would be useful in a future showdown. Because U.S. aircraft carriers would play a vital role in any clash with China over Taiwan, being able to bottle up Chinese subs at their base - and measuring the range from their base within which U.S. technology could be used to hunt them before they escape into the open sea, where they would be much more difficult to detect - are key U.S. intelligence goals. The data collected by vessels like the Impeccable, along with detailed maps of the ocean floor near the Chinese base that would guide U.S. sub hunters...
...Most legal experts say the U.S. was well within its rights to prowl where it was at the time it was approached by the Chinese armada on Sunday. "The U.S. was collecting undersea data that is related to war-fighting and is not banned by the treaty rules covering exploitation of resources in the economic zone," writes John McCreary, a military-intelligence veteran of more than three decades, on his NightWatch blog. "The Chinese are just angry that the U.S. Navy can watch them...
...Sarkozy's conservative supporters counter that remaining soft on Internet piracy will lead French artists to rapid ruin. Within the past five years alone, French record companies have seen sales plunge by more than 50%, mostly because of illegal music downloading. Polls indicate that more than one-third of French people say they have downloaded and exchanged copyright-protected files at least once. Entertainment-industry organizations say about 450,000 illegal downloads take place in France each day. That has cost French musicians and studios about $10 million in royalties annually over the past five years. That loss of financial...