Toffee?

Let's go and get some toffee. No, let's get chocolates.

So Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer you know it?

NW So this is from this animal right here, Greater Spot Nosed Guenon.

The apple board is going to work out that if they make toffee apples they'll eat more apples as well.

As sanctions are lifted, Iran will become stronger, challenging the influence of the Gulf States. Anticipating this, these states have already sought reassurances from the US, while following a more hard nosed policy in Yemen or Syria, where they consider themselves to be containing Iran s hegemonic ambitions.

Truck drivers, who protested against long waits at customs stations, helped spur the effort. But it took another decade of hard nosed, detailed negotiations, entailing efforts to strengthen the EU s external borders, to reach the point, in 1995, where internal border controls could actually be lifted.

It is easy for business to want government just to get out of the way, and for the media to point fingers and sensationalize events without much depth of analysis or even, sometimes, grasp of reality. True, India may not be the best advertisement for democracy in some respects, given how hard it often seems there to make long term decisions and implement them without being buffeted and frequently derailed by volatile public opinion and hard nosed vested interests.

Indeed, the financial pragmatism of working class and poor women is the reason for the successes in the developing world of micro financing that puts money in their hands. It would surprise me if middle class women anywhere in the world brought up to view certain forms of economic ignorance and naiveté as socially appropriate could, without climbing a steep learning curve, be as reliable and hard nosed as the world s poor and working class women consistently prove themselves to be.