Word: hauntingly
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Could an old triumph be coming back to haunt the Clintonites who are joining President-elect Barack Obama's staff? If there's one foreign policy achievement that Clintonites are proud of, it's Bosnia. Some 13 years ago, during Bill Clinton's second term, a U.S.-led military intervention stopped the carnage in the former Yugoslav republic, followed by a peace deal forged by then Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke and signed in Dayton, Ohio. The deal, which carved Bosnia into two ethnically based statelets while retaining a weak common government, was so successful that vice-president-elect...
...justice department would do well to remember that what goes around, comes around. The witch hunt against UBS and Credit Suisse in the present economic climate will surely come back to haunt said Justice Department. America, like Germany, should stop whining and sort out its own taxation system so that citizens are not tempted into tax avoidance. Surely, the practice of some of the biggest U.S. banks of selling junk papers to unsuspecting clients, many of whom are pensioners, is far more despicable. The U.S. authorities must be aware that European investors who have been cheated in this fashion might...
...Taliban capitalized on widespread disgust with their savagery, eventually coming to power in 1996. The U.S., unwilling to commit large numbers of ground troops when it went to overthrow the Taliban government, relied instead on the northern warlords and their militias. In a grave mistake that was to haunt Afghanistan for years to come, many of those leaders were given prominent positions when the new Afghan government was formed, enabling them to claw back credibility that had been lost due to their abhorrent behavior in the civil war. Samimi laments the lost opportunity for Afghanistan to start over. "Right after...
Such cuts may help the short-term bottom line but can haunt companies down the road. "Stopping those payments can be a violation of an implicit contract, and that can affect people's sense of loyalty," says Stacey Kole, an expert on human-resources management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. "It's a natural trigger for people to look outside for alternative jobs." And employees remember such slights. "If you cheat me today," Kole says, "I'll remember that when I have options to go elsewhere...
...ever need me call, I will be there waiting when you fall, You know I will / I love you, I love you, I love you…” And yet, despite the seemingly optimistic bent of the track, Healy’s final words linger and haunt as he asks what went wrong: “In the days before you were young / We used to sit in the morning sun/ And turn the radio on / What happened?”And what did happen to Travis, the compatriots of Coldplay, the band...