NATO: Alliance Of the Unwilling

3.

Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room.

"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"

said the sunflowers, shining with dew.

"Our traveling habits have tired us.

Can you give us a room with a view?"

They arranged themselves at the window

and counted the steps of the sun,

and they both took root in the carpet

where the topaz tortoises run.

4. Living dead

5. Open secret

6. Virtual reality

7. Man proposes, God disposes.

8. "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."

NATO: Alliance Of the Unwilling

Many NATO members believe their troops should only be used for policing and nation-building operations, like these soldiers in Kosovo

The palace of the parliament in Bucharest, they like to say in Romania, is the second largest building in the world, trumped only by the Pentagon. It will need all its space when NATO leaders start their summit there on April 2. Heads of government of most of the 26 states that make up the world's largest military alliance will show up, as well as guests such as Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, whose nations are deploying troops alongside NATO allies in Afghanistan and other far-flung places.

(фрагмент текста о кризисе в США и о его преодолении путем денежных вливаний)

10. Stimulus Nation: Pump It Up

By Michael Kinsley Thursday, Dec. 04, 2008

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So, we're all agreed. The minute president-elect Barack Obama takes office, if not sooner, we must have a gigantic stimulus package of federal spending or tax cuts to get the country moving again. Wait. Better make that a humongous stimulus package. In fact, what's bigger than humongous? We'd better have a gargantuan stimulus package. Ordering up solutions to this economic crisis is getting to be like ordering a latte from Starbucks: On second thought, we'll take the bigger one.

11. (Продолжение того же текста)

Even though amounts this large inevitably seem like toy money, it's a real trillion dollars we are talking about spending. Even if we spend the money wisely (on bridges to somewhere), we or future generations will still have to pay it off, with interest. Or, more likely, we will inflate (деньги обесценятся) it away, along with the life savings of those who were foolish enough to save all their lives.

12. "One voice can change a room. And if it can change a room, it can change a city. And if it can change a city, it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation. And if it can change a nation, it can change a world."
(Barack Obama, presidential campaign speech in Des Moines, Iowa, November 5, 2012)

13. "If you sow a thought, you reap an act. If you sow an act, you reap a habit. If you sow a habit, you reap a character. And if you sow a character, you reap a destiny."
(anonymous, quoted by Samuel Smiles in Life and Labor)

14. Pre-owned (=second-hand); 5) enhanced interrogation (=torture); 6) industrial action (=strike); 7) economical with the truth (=lying)

15) under-nose hair crops (=moustache)

16) it is not rocket science – you’ll be able to do it alone

17) a person with an alternative body image (=overweight),18) a horizontally challenged person (=handicapped) 19) chronologically gifted (=aged people), 20) cerebrally challenged – (=stupid), emotionally different (=crazy) 21 ) sanitation engineer (=garbage collector) 22) animal companion (=pet)

23) "Jones was having his first date with Miss Smith and was utterly captivated by her. She was beautiful, and intelligent as well, and as dinner proceeded, he was further impressed by her faultless taste.

24) “Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea

(здесь как минимум два приема, Asian dragons – так принято называть бурно развивающиеся государства Азии)

25) Sting in the tail of roaring Asian dragons

As we enter 2008, the countdown is well under way for August’s Olympic Games in China. Yet, months before the Olympic torch sparks into life in Beijing, China and its fellow Asian nations have already raced into a position of global leadership. The bad news is that while this trend will help to bolster global growth, its benefits to the industrialised world will be limited and are likely to come at a significant cost, both literally and metaphorically (The Times, January 7, 2008).

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