Word: cordial
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There have long been mutual advantages to a cordial relationship between Vatican and Cuban officials. For the most part, the Church has been able to attend to its flock and maintain its unique status in Cuban society. The regime has always appreciated the Vatican's denunciations of the American blockade as a human rights violation. There is also fundamental agreement in both Cuban and Catholic doctrine about caring for the weak and underprivileged. Still, the relationship has its limits amidst the government control of information and silencing of opposition movements, which have often included Catholic intellectuals and clergy. The island...
Located behind a series of concrete and barbed wire barricades in a Christian enclave of Baghdad, the Iraq Stock Exchange, or ISX, can be distiguished from its counterparts in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and London by two things: the trading is done manually, and two cordial plainclothes guards at the white plastic table in the courtyard are happy to check your guns...
...help but run into each other. Just about everyone from both offices eats lunch at Coney Island, a second-floor diner known for its pork loin. And there's the men's room, of course. A Paul volunteer recently ran into Huckabee himself there, and found him to be cordial. But there is some quiet grumbling from Huckabee's team about Paul's people using up all the paper towels. When told about the dispute, a top strategist for a rival G.O.P. campaign said of the scruffy Paul forces: "They probably bathe in there...
...Burke Jr., a 1979 graduate of the Business School, said that Thain’s skills were well suited to maneuver Merrill Lynch out of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that has plagued financial firms across the country in recent months. Thain has gained a reputation as a cordial, perspicacious technocrat who rose to serve as a co-president of Goldman Sachs and revived the ailing New York Stock Exchange. Merril Lynch reported an $8.4 billion loss in securities and bad loans last month. Thain was deeply involved in establishing the then-booming mortgage bond business while...
...Self-Inflicted Wounds In the past several months, the west has so antagonized Russian President Vladimir Putin that it has pushed him into the arms of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [Oct. 29]. The West is responsible for cementing the two formerly less-than-cordial nations. The worst nightmare would be if Russia goes all out to help Iran secure an arsenal of nuclear weapons. That would be a global debacle. Zi-zenn Chen, Sydney...