Word: bura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loaned some $118 billion since its inception. It has helped finance housing and sewage systems in the Brazilian slums of the city of Recife, irrigation systems in India and the construction of electrical generating plants in Thailand. Occasionally the bank comes a cropper. One dud project: the $110 million Bura irrigation scheme in Kenya, in which the World Bank participated and which the country's President, Daniel arap Moi, last January denounced as "a failure, a disgrace and the height of mismanagement." But usually the bank's efforts lead to solid accomplishments. A dramatic case is a twelve-year...
...harsh environment. These are just some of the well-documented facts, and fall short of doing justice to describing the magnitude of the internees' ordeal. And as the recent hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians so dramatically showed, the humiliation and the anger still bura deeply, the wounds remain open...
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