Word: approaching
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...Hezbollah is there. They [also] suffered a lot of blows, but somehow it could not end but by a political step of leadership. To fight against terrorism is like fighting mosquitoes. You can chase them one by one, but it's not very cost-effective. The more profound approach is to drain the swamp. So we are draining the swamp. We are in Israel. We are telling them, now we are neighbors and we behave the same way that any normal country would behave. Can you imagine the Germans trying to launch Katyushas at Strasbourg? The French will not respond...
...Rivlin, "some [FOMC] members were worried about the economy overheating. But I wasn't, and neither was Greenspan." Both argued that technology was making workers more productive and stifling inflation. The FOMC thus opted for a string of small rate hikes that became a hallmark of Greenspan's cautious approach to monetary policy...
...there's no question Americans are eagerly cutting the cord. Cell-phone use in the U.S. started slow. As recently as 1990 there were only 5 million wireless subscribers. Now 90 million Americans have cell phones, and by 2003 the number is likely to approach 140 million. Virtually all phones being made today have microbrowser capability, enabling them to surf the Web. PDA sales are exploding; they're projected to rise from 8.9 million last year to 35 million in 2003. That's largely due to a flurry of new devices from Casio, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard, as well...
...need motivation. It's a particularly important aspect of sports because the tiniest of margins often separate the winners from the losers. Yet with Knight, we're not talking about a constructive approach to making people perform by challenging them on their positions or on their failures in life. Knight does it to denigrate. Doesn't Indiana know that universities are supposed to be about how you teach? Teaching is about building confidence, about making people feel better about what they do and who they...
...leading to, by most accounts, a healthier sense of collegiality and greater willingness to cooperate. His goals for his last year in office--which include a new modern art museum, city approval for the construction of the Knafel Center and endowment of additional professorships--are consistent with this local approach...