Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...political contacts: Jose Antonio Garcia Contreras, an oil and auto magnate. The Gateway group met with dozens of candidates before choosing Garcia. "The real decision makers in Mexico are a relatively small group," Green says. "It is truly a club, in the same way the U.S. was during the 1900s when Morgan and Rockefeller ruled American business. They're wealthy men who went to the same schools, belong to the same clubs and are involved with politics and government." Such partners usually don't receive fees, and their salaries are modest, but if they deliver the required government approvals, they...
...Like many, but not all, landowners in the Powder River basin, Dube owns only the surface rights to his land. The mineral rights are split among the federal and state governments and other private owners in a complex title history dating back to the homesteading acts of the early 1900s. So Dube could do nothing to stop CMS Oil and Gas, which owns the mineral rights to his land, when it approached him two years ago about drilling in fields he had intended to keep clear for grazing cattle and hunting deer. The law obliged him to give the drilling...
...still enjoy Genoa's art, architecture, sweets and shopping. Start with the 12th century Cathedral of San Lorenzo and the nearby Chiesa del Gesu, which houses two paintings by Rubens. A major exhibit of paintings and manuscripts, "Travel in Italy: a Magic March from the 1500s to the 1900s," at the Palazzo Ducale through July 29, features works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Tiepolo, Titian and other greats. On Via Garibaldi, you will find both the Palazzo Bianco and the Palazzo Rosso, two museums with excellent collections of Flemish and Dutch paintings...
...carrying an idol of a long-haired fellow nailed to a cross. In the 1800s, thousands of Western missionary families spread across China offering healthcare and famine relief, eliciting accusations of selective distribution to the faithful: Chinese referred pejoratively to peasant converts as "rice Christians." In the early 1900s, Chinese ultra-nationalists marauded across the countryside, decapitating missionaries in the xenophobic Boxer Rebellion. But it was only after the Communist Party swept to power in 1949 that evangelists were finally expelled and extensive church lands reclaimed for farming. Most religious leaders later spent decades in re-education camps. When China...
...first third of the book describes the gradual downfall of Solomon Dorai, the patriarch of the clan, in the fictional village of Chevathar, famous for its succulently sweet blue mangoes. After he dies in the early 1900s in a fateful clash between castes, his two sons leave home. One, the rebellious and violent Aaron, is a daredevil who eventually ends up joining the revolt against the British. The quiet elder brother Daniel takes another path: banished from the family for not fighting against the lower castes, he rejects politics, including Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement, and becomes a successful...