1. So far he has had mixed success.2. The American government is notoriously stingy with its foreign aid.3. America still falls near the bottom of the rich-nation pack in generosity to those abroad.4． And with the deaths concentrated in the working-age population, each new case adds to a widening circle of economic hardship.5． “Unemployment”, Mr de Villepin declared, is “the true French disease”.6． He is pinned into an uncomfortably tight corner7． On domestic front, things picked up a bit. 8．To win, one needs a winner's mindset. 9. Science was the favourite child in the hands of the government.10．John Sweeney--gave a very downbeat assessment of the forum's dedication to a real adjustment of policy.11. Like the other online giants, Google, Yahoo! and Amazon, eBay is the survivor of a brutal shake-out.12. Sport may be an unfailing cause of ill-will.13. Mr Abe seems keen on a more assertive role for Japan internationally.14．Allegations of vote-buying in the Brazilian Congress are no novelty15．There's plenty of scope for argument about the economics of nuclear power generation16. But the economic case is not as clear-cut as it seems.17．There has always been a rift in the Republican coalition. 18．That suggests there are reservoirs of support. 19. They have managed to leave all the other rivals in dust.20. Oil exports are now nearly on a par with those of Saudi Arabia.21．European integration has reached a stable plateau.22．Many people protest that house prices are less vulnerable to a meltdown. 23. But when the technology bubble burst in 2001, thousands of firms were swept away.24．Various scenarios are envisioned by Grant.25. America will funnel more money towards Africa.26. The intense international scrutiny may have moderated the response.27. Personal and economic freedoms in this country have multiplied.28. Access to more customers allows exporters to exploit economies of scale.29. Some developing countries—in Latin America, especially Brazil, and in Africa too—are furious that a deal slipped away.30. Ministers picked a poor time to fail.31. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.32. Support for both main parties continues to ebb. 33. Chinese central government made a wise decision to scrap the ancient agricultural tax.34. These results seem to have silenced predictions.35．We need to market Europe as an answer to globalization.36. These countries have agreed on a firm line on Iran and sent Tehran a focused, concerted, unified message.37. The U.S. and German leaders are still nursing a relationship bruised by the Iraq war.38．Opinion on Iraq reflects, as well as contributes to, the malaise.39．The decline in support could be explained away as part of a wider outbreak of second-term blues.40. He is a pragmatic conservative who has relaunched himself as a cautious reformist.41．The impression of incompetence will linger.42．So far no dazzling synergies have emerged.43. The most pressing problem is the dismal state of Germany’s public finances.44．His postal-reform bill squeezed through the lower house of parliament45．In a banking system that is plagued by bad loans, fears persist.46. Psychological scars take longer to heal than physical ones.47. Earlier scandals had already begun to tarnish the Party’s holier-than-thou image.48. The president will now have to move quickly to form alliances and to apply balm to the wounds he has opened. If not, he will have only himself to blame.49. If they negotiated as a block, they could drive a harder bargain.50. For Kyoto Protocol, it’s hard to solve the difficulty of getting America on board.51. Underpinning this festival of commerce is the symbiotic relationship between sport and the media.52. New features and new strategies are being embraced as these firms fight each other, and a horde of others, for the e-commerce pie.53．What people today want is a Europe that delivers useful benefits: jobs, a clean environment, a foreign policy success on Iran54．You can't rouse people's passions for something that is 50 years old.55．Many people in Western Europe still feel that the union's recent eastward expansion has invited the unwanted consequences of globalization onto the continent. 56．In that sense Europe is pioneering a new world order: a multi-network Europe within a common institutional framework." 57．Even more embarrassingly, the gluttonous United States has outperformed its oil-sipping peers.58. High oil prices have had little noticeable impact on world demand—even for oil itself—leaving analysts scrambling for an explanation.59. Foreigners’ frustration at not being able to grab a bigger slice of the industry is understandable.60．Not only has this provided a healthy stream of income for Russia’s government, which takes a big chunk of oil revenues in taxes, but it has made its oil a vital foreign-policy tool.61．The global housing boom is the biggest financial bubble in history article. The bigger the boom, the bigger the eventual bust.62．Europe, in parti。