Word: abyss
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...can’t say I approve of Mugabe’s despotic rule, even after Barron’s favorable portrayal. But I am convinced that if Western governments think Mugabe is solely to blame for Zimbabwe’s plunge into the abyss, it is only because they have not looked in the mirror. Like other nations in Africa, Zimbabwe desperately needs a real and dramatic redistribution of land to undo the legacy of colonization. The problem is that neither Mugabe nor his critics have figured...
...course. Chavez, 47, controls the hemisphere's largest reserves, which are often touted as America's long-term relief from Middle East oil dependence. And with his economy staring into an Argentine-style abyss, he needs to sell more of it - especially since the financial crisis has his military enemies itching to stage another coup. (During last week's march, Vice Adm. Alvaro Martin Fossa, the nation's second most powerful military figure, resigned in protest of Chavez's government.) The U.S., meanwhile, bracing for the possibility of petro-market chaos if it invades Iraq, needs more reliable supplies...
...those crazy mechanized yo-yos that keeps spinning. He was like ‘Dude, let me see your yo-yo.’ So he starts swinging my yo-yo around his head and half of it goes flying off into the abyss somewhere. He was like, ‘Oh man, I’m really sorry. How much did that cost?’ And I was like, ‘I think it’s about ten bucks.’ So then he goes ‘Well, here’s five...
Mather may offer single rooms to all its residents, but that does not make it acceptable. Satan’s fiery abyss may have singles, but I doubt it has a dining hall as inadequate as Mather?...
...Verbatim "We go from summit to summit but our peoples go from abyss to abyss." HUGO CHAVEZ, President of Venezuela, discussing the failings of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg...