Word: worldly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long time the city of Dallas has been like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. It wants to be a contender, a world-class city. It already has a few of the prerequisites - a skyline, an NFL franchise and a serious traffic problem. But until you have the full panoply of major cultural venues, you're Palookaville...
...stricken place with weak governments, meaning that the family was the only source of protection and economic support for people. More recently, psychologists and economists believe the mammone problem is rooted in the economic precariousness of a debt-ridden nation that has been in gradual decline since its post-World War II boom. Religious values are still strong too. Until the 1960s, the Roman Catholic Church explicitly encouraged a family structure based around a working father and a stay-at-home mother. (See pictures of the good life in Italy...
...Iranian officials insisted that they would not accept France as a supplier. The New York Times reported that a face-saving compromise was being developed that would see Iran make a deal with Russia, which could separately subcontract work out to France. (See pictures of people around the world protesting Iran's election...
...children, watching every move they make, are not limited to Italy. Modern society is producing ever more overinformed, overanxious and overprotective parents, blamed for causing or exacerbating all sorts of problems in their children, from learning disabilities to teenage anorexia. "If you don't let your child discover the world, it can do real harm," says Henriette Felici-Bach, a child psychologist in Paris. "In these cases, the parent must be cured as well. If a mother is acting this way, it is because she is not well, she fears something that does not exist...
...Since his election in May 2007, the French President has taken positions on Iran worthy of the most hawkish members of the Bush Administration. In July 2007, he warned that the world would have to force Tehran to abandon its nuclear program, or face a "catastrophic alternative: the Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran." And that was just his warm-up. (See the top 10 players in Iran's power struggle...