• I'm very happy to confirm that and if we decide to do this in due course and we all want to call it a U-turn, then I'll call it a U-turn, I'm not fussed about that.

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  • They chanted "U-S-A, U-S-A" when Goodell paid tribute to the first responders at the Boston Marathon bombings and to the victims of the explosion in West, Texas.

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  • As the yen fell below 140 to the U.S. dollar June 8, its lowest level in seven years, economists warned of a double-U - a slow recovery suddenly cut by a new round of devaluations, say, or a meltdown in Wall Street or Russia.

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  • Ninety-eight members of this House - including a number from the government benches - are calling for a U-turn.

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  • " With little helpful information, Chetan, 13, of Plano, Texas, pursed his lips before guessing "c-a-b-u-r-r-i.

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  • And I would say one thing to Congressman Issa, Plaquemines is spelled P-l-a-q-u-e-m-i-n-e-s.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The stated reason was the pressure of the tense international situation - a German U-boat's torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania in May of that year cost 139 American lives - but many reporters suspected Wilson had simply got tired of them.

    BBC: Woodrow Wilson's odd early press conferences

  • Years of fiscal profligacy and a 1 to 1 hard peg between the peso and the dollar were financed with credit, a-la U.S.A during the Bush years, only that in its Latin American version.

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  • August's botched launch involved a Soyuz-U. An inquiry into that incident eventually traced the problem to a blocked fuel line, again in the third stage of the vehicle.

    BBC: Another Soyuz rocket launch fails

  • "Piggy-backing on a large U-boat, the Seehund had the capability of reaching the Foyle where there was intense naval and merchant navy activity, " he said.

    BBC: Experts to examine River Foyle, Derry, wreck

  • And he strongly criticised Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to remove transport secretary Justine Greening from her post, which he claimed was a prelude to a U-turn on a third runway.

    BBC: A plane flying over west London

  • Roth expands it into a rich Louisiana picaresque, ranging far and wide as Benjamin tastes romance in Russia with the wife of an English diplomat (a beguiling Tilda Swinton), comes off second-best in an encounter with a German U-boat, and pursues Daisy, the love of his life, first to New York and then to Paris.

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  • We also discussed the importance of the transition from a Defense-weighted U.S. approach to a more State Department-weighted approach, and the need to make sure that we are adequately funding and supporting all the diplomatic measures that are going to be necessary so that we can partner effectively with a new Iraqi government over the long haul.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President on Cabinet Meeting and General McChrystal | The White House

  • For example, it might buy platinum and sell silver, or buy a thirty-year U.K. bond and sell a ten-year bond.

    NEWYORKER: Mastering the Machine

  • That hearing involved a lawsuit filed by two voters -- a U.S. Army doctor, Kevin Reilly, in Hawaii and a man living in Paris -- who said they already cast their ballots in the race.

    CNN: Supreme Court won't intervene in N.J. case

  • "Kuwait has taken something of a downward spiral, " said Farah al-Nakib, a young U.S.-educated woman who wouldn't be caught dead in a veil.

    CNN: Nicholas Kristof: Running for the exits

  • The infiltrators fled the scene after the A.U.-U.N. police unit returned fire, the mission said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Hobbling, Joycelyn asked a police officer in a U-Haul truck for a ride.

    CNN: A momma's love

  • Under a tentative peace deal, al-Bashir agreed in November to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7, 000-strong African Union force in Darfur.

    NPR: U.S. Stiffens Sanctions on Sudan over Darfur

  • Earlier this year, CAFTA nations nominated a pro-U.S. candidate to become secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), the 57 year-old intergovernmental hemispheric collective security organization that includes all governments in the Americas (except Cuba).

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The national security case for CAFTA

  • Congressional members also asked Alexander how he envisioned working out an attack by a separate country or a non-U.S.-based group, which directed the attack though U.S.-based computers, putting the electronic strike under the responsibility of DHS and raising privacy issues for U.S. citizens.

    CNN: U.S. won't militarize cyberspace, nominee says

  • Conceptually, the system appears to be very similar to the Social Bicycles model that we wrote about earlier this summer as part of our Insert Coin series, though that US-based prototype includes a u-style lock, for securing the bike to a post or tree.

    ENGADGET: NTT DoCoMo Shared Bicycle Initiative hands-on (video)

  • The indictment alleges that the system of payments defrauded the FEC because the watchdog agency was given false information about the source on contributions, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) because it was not told the source was a non-U.S. citizen so that the agency would permit the "conduits" to enter or remain in the United States.

    CNN: Maria Hsia Indicted In Campaign Finance Probe

  • It also alleges that the system of payments defrauded the FEC and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), stating the FEC was given false information about the source of contributions and the INS was not told the source was a non-U.S. citizen so that the agency would permit the "conduits" to enter or remain in the United States.

    CNN: Maria Hsia Indicted In Campaign Finance Probe

  • However, Hebron denied that the introduction of a best film prize represented a U-turn for this traditionally non-competitive event.

    BBC: London festival gives Clooney fix

  • But don't be surprised: She can unleash maelstroms at the piano, throw an elbow and pound a fist, then make a U-turn and come back swinging.

    NPR: Joanne Brackeen: A Maelstrom On The Keys

  • The Pakistani officials confirm that Armitage asked Musharraf -- a key U.S. ally -- to conduct his own investigation and act swiftly against Khan, warning that failure to do so would jeopardize Islamabad's ties with Washington.

    CNN: CIA 'sparked Pakistan nuke probe'

  • Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Japan -- a staunch U.S. ally -- stood by its decision to back the war because Iraq still posed a threat because it had previously been developing such weapons and it was not clear whether it had abandoned those programs.

    CNN: Report?fuels Iraq WMD debate

  • To that end, President Obama and Prime Minister Tusk announced the convening of a high-level U.S.-Poland Business Roundtable that would foster a collaborative government and private sector discussion to identify new commercial opportunities, promote innovative research and development cooperation, and to address obstacles that hinder commercial growth.

    WHITEHOUSE: Fact Sheet: U.S.-Poland Business Roundtable

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