Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...comedian Sarah Silverman says in her YouTube video advertisement for The Great Schlep, “I’m gonna blame the Jews.” In September, when I went home for Rosh Hashanah and told my family that I supported Obama, I heard a very different ultimatum: If Barack Obama does become the next president of the United States, they’re going to blame the Jews. Orthodox Jews like my parents are an often overlooked demographic, even for organizations like The Great Schlep. Nevertheless, their objections to an Obama administration are forceful?...
...major touchstone is Paul Greengrass's Bourne Ultimatum, surely the most influential action film of the decade. Quantum appropriates Bourne's tilt-a-whirl camera and ADD editing, not to mention the vigorous skirmishes on roofs, in cars and hotel rooms. But the big similarity is in the two films' heroes. James Bond and Jason Bourne are both company spies whom their governments want dead, and both are coping with their girlfriends' violent deaths...
...married people. Offer him a bribe, such as a hairy dog, if that's what he wants. To head off any incipient claustrophobia on his part, start having more ladies' nights. Tell him you don't even want a diamond. And in a worse-case scenario, give him an ultimatum...
...free running - a variant of parkour, born in the Paris suburbs a decade or so ago - are usually more at home outdoors, scaling walls and leaping roof tops in cities around the world. But as the pastime has taken off - showcased in movies from Bond to The Bourne Ultimatum, free running practitioners now number 15,000 in the U.K. alone - it was time to move indoors to compete...
...Russia had grown accustomed to "artificial obstacles on the path to this document." On the eve of the summit, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev told Sarkozy - not for the first time - that Russian troops intended to pull out of the buffer zones in Georgia proper, raising the possibility that the ultimatum for the suspension of talks would quickly be rendered moot. "The majority of E.U. countries have manifested a responsible approach and confirmed their intention to continue the partnership with Russia," the Foreign Ministry statement concluded...