Zoellick on whirlwind tour for World bank job
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Robert Zoellick, U.S. President George W. Bush's nominee to head the World Bank, will travel to Africa, Europe and Latin America to lobby for the job starting on Monday, and said he wants to hear directly from governments about their development priorities.
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The World Bank confirms that former US diplomat Robert Zoellick will become its new president.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Robert Zoellick is a veteran of Washington&#39;s and Wall Street&#39;s top levels. As a US government official, he helped negotiate the reunification of Germany in 1990 and later smoothed China&#39;s entry into the World Trade Organization. More recently, he&#39;s brokered business deals throughout Asia as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs.
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The Washington-based World Bank says 2004 has been a very good year for developing countries, with their economies growing at their fastest pace in 30 years.
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FOR two weeks every other month, Andy Jent heads from Dallas to Asia for a regional meeting with clients of CXO, his crisis-management firm. But rather than use a conventional travel agent or reserve flights online, Mr. Jent books his trip through the international reservations department at oneworld, a global alliance of 10 airlines anchored around American Airlines.
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President George W. Bush has chosen Robert Zoellick, a former U.S. trade representative, to replace Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, a senior American official said on Tuesday.
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Joan Didion, Seymour Hersh, Bob Woodward, Anna Quindlen, Alex Kotlowitz, Paul Hendrickson, Samantha Power and Bill Walton are going on David Halberstamâs book tour for him.
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Robert B. Zoellick, a seasoned player in international financial and diplomatic circles, won the unanimous approval of the World Bank's board yesterday to become its next president.
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He was an architect of the Iraq war who was forced from the World Bank presidency amid allegations that he improperly acted to benefit his girlfriend. Now, Paul D. Wolfowitz will turn his attention to the relatively calmer waters of Washington intelligentsia, as a visiting scholar at the American...
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Chinese markets swooned, but American investors reached new heights. The World Bank has big money-raising needs for its new leader.
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The world&#39;s developing countries this year will turn in the strongest economic growth in three decades and should continue to enjoy solid expansion in 2005 and 2006, the World Bank predicted Tuesday.
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Robert Zoellick, slated to  replace Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, must  move swiftly to restore confidence in the poverty-fighting  institution, France&#39;s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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Robert Zoellick has dealt with the Cold War, the killing in Darfur, China's rise as an economic colossus. His next challenge: to restore confidence at the badly shaken World Bank.
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Robert Zoellick, picked by U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday to head the World Bank, said his biggest challenge would be to "calm the waters" following the storm over outgoing president Paul Wolfowitz.
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The new head of the World Bank is likely to be named later this week, a White House spokesman says.
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The World Bank is hiring experts in 'adaptation' to a warming world. Coastal planners are starting to take it into account.
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The head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, proposes joint aid projects in Africa with China.