Word: face-off
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There have been occasional public run-ins, but the two haven't talked privately since Bush was declared winner of their face...
...Since the beginning of the diplomatic face-off with Iran, the Bush Administration has been acutely aware that there are limits to the willingness of the international community to enforce sanctions. The E.U., composed of 27 member states, is Iran's biggest trading partner, accounting for 27.8% of the country's trade in 2006. Russia has a range of commercial contracts with Iran, among them an agreement to help construct Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr. And energy-hungry China has not hesitated throughout the nuclear standoff to sign new oil and gas deals with Iran. Such economic...
...that. But I think he'll be better than me.' YAO MING, all-star center for the Houston Rockets, on his fellow Chinese basketball player, rookie Yi Jianlian. The Rockets defeated Yi's Milwaukee Bucks in the two players' heavily hyped first-ever face-off, which drew as many as 200 million viewers in China
...team and experience what life would have been like at a real college. Countless shirts have been circulating, praising Harvard’s dominance over Yale with varying degrees of wit and logic. In honor of tomorrow’s festivities, let’s examine the Harvard-Yale face-off in an arena that makes much more sense than football—literature. Harvard’s unbridled superiority became immediately apparent when comparing the wikipedia pages entitled “List of Harvard People” and “List of Yale People...
...face-off between Blanque and Tyson highlights a sharp divergence in risk perceptions at the board session, which also included Moises Naim, formerly Venezuela's Trade and Industry Minister, who is editor of the Washington-based journal Foreign Policy; Fang Xinghai, the deputy chief executive of the Shanghai Stock Exchange; and Slawomir Sikora, president of Poland's Bank Handlowy w Warszawie--now part of Citigroup...