Word: africas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Theodore Roosevelt mounted a grand, year-long safari to East Africa, where, nearsighted as Mr. Magoo, he fired off an astonishing amount of ammunition at every species in God's creation, to be stuffed for the American Museum of Natural History. Lyndon Johnson returned to his Texas ranch to drink and smoke and grow his hair long like a hippie and wait to die. Richard Nixon did brooding penance beside the Pacific, then went back East to reinvent himself as elder statesman...
Rice also noted that more than 100,000 American jobs currently depend on exports to Africa...
...some audience member were wary of the U.S. economic policy towards Africa...
...word `partnership' implies equal power," said Patrick Sylvain, a student at the Graduate School of Education. "But I see it as the U.S. moving in as the new power. I hope that the commitment to economic growth in Africa is a real one, and not a lopsided attempt to exploit African markets...
Rice also described initiatives to help promote civic responsibility in Africa, such as investment in education and technology...