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The American and French presidents need each other -- Mr. Obama needs Mr. Sarkozy on the euro zone crisis, and Mr. Sarkozy needs the coattail effect of a rock-star president.
Just a few hours after the United Nations Security Council authorized military action against Libya in March, President Barack Obama placed a call to the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.
... careful not to give away too many policy hostages to fortune. He is effectively immune from being at...
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... may rise or decline with the vagaries of fortune. The value to the public of the services they perf... Commission recognized that producers are hostages to good fortune; they must expect that their progr...
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... We are not hostages to fortune. Our forbears were not the sort to be ...
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The United States faces a big choice. Americans can either have a hard decade or a bad century.
It becomes clearer every week that the United States faces a big choice: We Americans can either have a hard decade or a bad century.
... case, the rest of us will just sit here, hostages to fortune, orphans of a political system gone mad...
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If nothing else, Vermont's many domiciled captive insurance companies (entities set up by large companies to manage self insurance plans) are required by the state's favorable laws to hold at least-one meeting within the state's boundaries each year. In its report, the VCB tries to provide some context by observing that the estimated 14.3 million visitor trips to Vermont each year bring $1.615 billion in spending (supporting more than 37,490 jobs), and boosts the state treasury by adding $206.9 million in taxes and fees.
...Hostages To Fortune. At the Agency of Commerce and Communit...
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... of "other income" risks making companies hostages to fortune and needlessly inhibiting innovation. T...
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Chaucer and Shakespeare recognized the wisdom of stealing from the best (Virgil, Dante, Boccaccio and other classics). And two pragmatic contemporary novelists have followed their larcenous example most profitably, mining the untold riches offered by the great Victorian novelists: First and foremost, "the Inimitable" Charles Dickens, and also his illustrious contemporaries Thackeray, George Eliot, Trollope and that nonpareil spinner of ghostly yarns Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
In his elaborately plotted Kept (HarperCollins, $29.95, 480 pages), British novelist and biographer D.J. Taylor reshapes insistent echoes of beloved classics into a brain-squeezing tale of windswept passions, dispassionate venality and skillful misdirection. It begins with reports of two seemingly unrelated deaths, t...
... account of a poor young man's rise to fortune, happiness of a sort, and a tempered comprehension... children - and in so doing, produces hostages to the fortune that continues to enable him and th...
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...We are not hostages to fortune. Our forbears were not the sort to be i...
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Paul West - Excerpt
... would one day soon be deprived of these hostages to fortune, but not yet. . One nurse, professing t...
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Young adult review - Brief article - Book review
... were questions he needed to ask." In "Hostages to Fortune," a couple uses their children as barga...