Word: towardness
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...which has been in theaters three weeks longer. (The Sandra Bullock movie was buoyed Friday by screenings in auditoriums also showing sneak previews of next weekend's Katherine Heigl rom-com The Ugly Truth.) Holding even stronger was The Hangover, which cost $35 million to produce and is cruising toward the $250 million domestic mark. Brüno, The Hangover and The Proposal finished within $100,000 of one another, according to industry estimates. Monday's final figures could rearrange the order...
California's crisis continues while Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders inch slowly toward agreement on the deep cuts necessary to close the state's massive $26 billion budget shortfall. Now, even as California continues to pay its bills with IOUs, the University of California, the nation's leading public university, is being forced to cut its budget by $813 million - or 20%. It is highly unlikely that these cuts will be reduced by a budget agreement in Sacramento...
...There is also a potential double standard to consider. In the case of Egypt, "China is not involved in or critical about any of the political challenges in Egypt, and it doesn't interfere on this level," says Mustafa. "That makes Egypt more reserved toward any clashes that Muslims are involved [with] in China...
Having insisted throughout the war that it was taking extraordinary care to avoid civilian casualties, Israel has rejected allegations to the contrary, suggesting they lack a basis in fact and are instead driven by agendas hostile to the Jewish State. But suggestions of bias and hostility toward Israel are a more difficult response when similar claims are made by Israeli soldiers involved in the operation. In March, a group of soldiers who had fought in Gaza told a forum at an Israeli military college of a number of instances in which Palestinian civilians had been killed as a result...
...strategist for Research Edge, an equity-research firm based in New Haven, Conn., believes Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics "well understands that there are doubts in the markets about the reliability of China's data. But unlike a year ago, they are actively trying to take baby steps toward more transparency." Government statisticians recently announced that they would work with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to improve data quality...