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| Romania's PM resigns amid protests Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:47:13 EST Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc resigns, following weeks of public protests against austerity measures, and in the wake of at least 34 deaths due to cold weather. |
| Strike in France expected to ground many overseas flights Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:38:17 EST Air France expects to cancel nearly half its "long haul" flights Tuesday because of a strike, the airline said in a news release, and more than a quarter of the carrier's remaining scheduled flights are expected not to get off the ground. |
| IMF warns China on eurozone fallout Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:39 EST Economic growth in China could drop by half this year in the event of a sharp recession in Europe, the IMF predicted on Monday in a report that underscored the importance of global trade to the world's second largest economy. |
| Spain's Socialist Party elects new leader Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:27:27 EST Spain's Socialist Party has elected Alfredo Rubalcaba as its new secretary general, three months after he led the party to a landslide loss to the conservatives in the midst of the nation's deep economic crisis. |
| Former Protestant leader Paisley hospitalized Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:42:23 EST Ian Paisley, the evangelist who made peace in Northern Ireland after leading Protestants against compromise with Roman Catholics for years, has been hospitalized for an unreported condition, his wife said in a statement Monday. |
| British court grants bail to radical cleric Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:22:03 EST A court in the United Kingdom has granted bail to a radical cleric accused of links to al Qaeda, the British Home Office said Monday. |
| Contador stripped of Tour de France title Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:31:01 EST Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has been stripped of his 2010 title and retroactively banned from cycling for two years following Monday's ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. |
| Hearing set for Italian cruise ship captain Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:39:15 EST A closed-door hearing to determine whether the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship should remain under house arrest is set for Monday. |
| Queen celebrates 60 years on UK throne Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:59:10 EST Sixty years ago Monday, a 25-year-old woman got a message that her father had died -- and that she was now Queen Elizabeth II. |
| Is Europe hostile to Muslims? Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:14:26 EST Mohammed Ayoob says two separate actions--around the issues of Iran sanctions and the World War I massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks--betray the West's double standard in dealing with Muslims |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 06, 2012 is:
propinquity • \pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\ • noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity
Examples:
Many of the retirement community's residents cite the propinquity of the area's various cultural offerings as a significant reason for their choice of the facility.
"Canada was faced with the overwhelming propinquity of the United States; it was just next door -- for almost nine thousand kilometres." -- From Derek Lundy's 2011 book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Did you know?
"Propinquity" and its cousin "proximity" are related through the Latin root "prope," which means "near." That root gave rise to "proximus" (the parent of "proximity") and "propinquus" (an ancestor of "propinquity"). "Proximus" is the superlative of "prope" and thus means "nearest," whereas "propinquus" simply means "near" or "akin," but in English "propinquity" conveys a stronger sense of closeness than "proximity." (The latter usually suggests a sense of being in the vicinity of something.) The distinctions between the two words are subtle, however, and they are often used interchangeably. "Propinquity" is believed to be the older of the two words, first appearing in English in the 14th century; "proximity" followed a century later.