Word: bereft
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...cold war. Standing up to the Soviets, while a daunting task and perhaps one oversimplified at the time, was in some ways less tricky than sorting out the collapse of Yugoslavia or dealing with a persistently sluggish global economy. Communism's demise left grand alliances of countries bereft of ideologies, foes and, ultimately, a vision of where to go next...
Last year Petit-Trou's only storyteller died, leaving no one to protect its memories, such as they have become. Already bereft of a future, the town now finds itself without its past as well. Yet astonishingly, plans are already in the works for still another boat, whose keel is secretly being laid a few hundred yards from where the Dieu Veut was launched. Rumor has it that about 1,000 similar boats are under construction by neighboring communities up and down the coast. If the embargo continues and Aristide fails to return, the call for "leaving day" will...
...positive. Still, with Thai men and foreign sex tourists unaware of or unfrightened by those statistics, the country has the world's largest child sex industry, and sex mobsters go to great lengths to find virginal youngsters. Entire villages in northern Thailand along the Burmese border are almost bereft of young girls because they have been sold into prostitution, often by parents willing to sacrifice a daughter for payments that range as high as $8,000. Having exhausted the Thai supply, child traffickers have expanded recruitment into Burma and China. And when the girls are no longer useful, they...
...salarymen, bereft of overtime and entertainment allowances, are having to spend time with wives and children they have barely spoken to for years -- sometimes to their mutual shock. Japanese businessmen are traditionally so lost outside their offices and clubs that many a wife refers to a retired husband as a "damp leaf" -- a sticky annoyance to a woman tidying up a walk...
...week. Ron's professional reflexes were among the best in journalism. In both a military and an editorial sense, he was a superb officer of the line, and his death last week at the age of 58, after a long struggle with cancer, leaves us bereft. He was loved here...