Word: buffer
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...similar feelings about the Israeli settlers who lived nearby: Why on earth were they doing this? There was a cockeyed rationale for the Jewish settlements in the West Bank: Judea and Samaria were the heart of ancient Israel, and a modern Jewish presence there was a defensive buffer against the Arab hordes...
...What keeps Zimbabwe from total economic collapse is the Zimbabwean diaspora," says Elinor Sisulu, who is a co-ordinator of the Zimbabwe Crisis Coalition, an advocacy group for the expat community in Johannesburg. "Mugabe's investment in education is paying off now. The diaspora is providing something of a buffer against the real anger of the people, because they are being kept from total poverty...
...truth is that if [Senior Gift Plus] did not exist, these same members would not have dedicated even a minute fraction of the amount of energy to create a site or do anything related to those black Africans dying in Darfur—parody is not a buffer for insult,” Adjah wrote in an e-mail...
...extraordinarily fragile. Political relations between China and Japan are frosty. Japan has, for the first time, just agreed with the U.S. that peace in the Taiwan Strait is one of its security objectives. North Korea could yet collapse into chaos, unify with the South, and leave China without a buffer state between itself and the U.S.'s allies. Many of the tensions in the region would be resolved if China were to develop into a democratic society that neither threatens its neighbors nor feels threatened by them?a consummation devoutly to be wished. But the future...
...Numbers 1,300 Number of security guards and police guarding a stadium in Saitama during last week's North Korea-Japan soccer match, which was won by Japan 2-1 1,000 Number of seats left empty between the North Korean and Japanese fans to create a "buffer zone...