Word: preparedness
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Such violent confrontations are increasingly common in China, where decades of frantic growth have generated an equally frantic desire to cash in by developers, often aided or partnered by corrupt local government officials. But the Zhuhai case is different in one critical respect: after their claims were twice denied by...
Wallach and his allies began to shift local opinion by showing that going green wasn't just about saving the polar bears but also cutting waste and saving on rising fuel bills and building a stronger, more resilient town. Those arguments made sense even to Greensburg's old-timers. "Our...
Obama supporters and some media commentators, however, have suggested that Clinton's campaign in Pennsylvania is top-heavy and poorly organized, pointing to the fact that she failed to fill all 103 slots on her delegate slate - a routine and basic exercise in political organizing - despite a two-day deadline...
The stage, as they say, was set.Two 9-2 teams, tied for first in the Ivy League? Check. An emerging Ancient Eight rivalry? Check. A packed, noisy Lavietes Pavilion? Check.Star power? Check. Sort of.As Harvard and Cornell prepared to do battle for the top spot in the Ivy League and...
Though Popular Party candidate Rajoy, who lost to Zapatero in 2004, says he would not revoke gay-partner benefits, he has vowed not to subsume them under the word marriage. Pedro Zerolo, a Socialist leader and a key architect of Zapatero's reforms, finds such qualms misplaced. "Marriage has always...