Word: bedrock
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...devising the group's name exclusively so that its French acronym, Fonacon, would be homonymous with the phrase "telephone an a__hole." (Its year-end protest slogans are equally risible, including last year's motto, "It Was Better Right Now.") Fonacon and its futile protest are rooted in a bedrock of self-deprecation, echoing France's tradition of iconoclastic comics getting the French to laugh at their more ridiculous characteristics. Notable among those comedians are the late antiestablishment humorist Coluche, the writers of the nightly satirical newscast Les Guignols de l'Info, Jules-Edouard Moustic - host of the black parody...
...issue marriage licenses to gay couples. In a wide-ranging interview, Brown told TIME that his view of the legal merits of the case had evolved over the past several weeks, and explained why he now thinks the right to gay marriage in California is as fundamental as such bedrock principles as the right to property and to liberty itself...
...resource-poor Japan, which imports 90% of its fuel, Kuzumaki is a marvel of energy self-sufficiency. Signs of the town's comprehensive focus on environmental sustainability are visible from its mountaintops to the pens of the dairy cows that once were the bedrock of local commerce. Atop Mt. Kamisodegawa, the 12 wind turbines, each 305 feet (93 m) tall, have the capacity to convert mountain gusts into 21,000 KW of electricity - more than enough to meet the needs of the town's residents. The excess is sold to neighboring communities...
...mission is to erase from government any influence of billionaire populist Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed as Prime Minister in a 2006 army coup. Although the telecom tycoon is beloved by many poor Thais who once gave him a record electoral mandate, the urban middle class, which forms the bedrock of the PAD, accuses Thaksin of being a power-hungry strongman. In October, the former P.M. was sentenced in absentia to two years' imprisonment for a conflict of interest conviction. Several other corruption cases against him are working through the Thai courts. (Thaksin maintains he is innocent of all alleged...
...SADC), were called in to mediate after Mugabe's Zanu-PF Party and the MDC failed to agree on how to allocate the 31 Cabinet posts in a prospective unity government. The ruling party insists on retaining control over the police, army and intelligence apparatuses, which have been the bedrock of its control. But the MDC expected to be given authority over the Ministry of Home Affairs, which controls the police force, and it warned last Friday that it would stay out of any new government in which it were offered less than an equal share of power, which...