In addition, it heavily involves and impacts private and foreign investment.

Stall speed is a terrifying risk for an economy like that of the US, which desperately needs to grow robustly.

The mandate of the Bank s next president will be crucial in making or breaking an institution that the world desperately needs in the century ahead.

As a member of NASA's Advisory Council, I am currently visiting its Kennedy Space Center, which is badly in need of upgrading and repairs.

A credible, pre announced phase out path would provide much needed reassurance to skittish global investors, without imposing immediate hardship on the poor.

That is why, despite serious difficulties, Turkey has a good chance of overcoming its internal tensions and becoming the example that its Middle East neighbors (and perhaps a few of its European neighbors as well) so desperately need.

The president of the US is pretty much the president of the world, so America's choice next November is of more than passing interest to the planet. ...The rest of the world desperately needs an American president with some common sense.

It's very unsettling.

Anton will be terribly missed.

Sami needs to eat.

Your house needs repairing.

The biggest question mark, though, is whether Zoellick will be able to hit the ground running and implement desperately needed reforms. Reform number one, of course, is to ensure that the next World Bank President is not an American.

It's been pretty crazy.

It snowed hard yesterday.

Tom got soaking wet.

3. Strongly condemns

4. Strongly condemns

It is raining hard.

The grass needs cutting.

The house requires repairs.

A child needs love.

Sami needs a new pair of shoes.

Sami needs to rest.

Sami needs something.

Your hair wants cutting.

So far, the IMF has reacted with newfound vigor, establishing a much needed short term lending facility, which may well need to be expanded if emerging markets come under greater pressure.

It's very, very preventable.

It is raining hard now.

Japan is very subject to earthquakes.

Their friendship moved us deeply.

Strike hard who cares shoot straight who can

The Germans are deeply conflicted.

Language acquisition requires creativity.

The shirt needs ironing.

This chair needs to be fixed.

Tom needs a good lawyer.

Your cat needs to eat more.

This mosque needs a new imam.

Sami only needs one computer.

Who needs a food processor like this?

The world needs you to succeed.

Who Needs the Humanities?

You simply got everything you wanted (and probably much more) with the purchase of a computer.

Security requires not just troops, but laws and their enforcement.

A further slowdown in China is a distinct possibility. China s leaders must do what it takes to ensure that such a slowdown is not viewed as secular trend a perception that could undermine the consumption and investment that the economy so badly needs.