Word: civilization
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...Toyota's North American president, Yoshi Inaba, is set to testify with other company bigwigs about Toyota's safety record at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. LaHood has said civil penalties are a strong possibility...
...Quotes By: "We can announce very responsibly that we have liberated the whole country from terrorism." - To Sri Lankan state television after security forces defeated the last remaining Tamil Tigers, effectively ending one of the world's longest-running civil wars (CBC News...
...side: Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China by Ian Johnson and China's Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead by Bruce Gilley. Both are by authors who draw on lengthy experience reporting on China and are interested in democracy and civil society. Gilley claims to know what the future holds for China. Johnson, though, focuses on telling a series of revealing tales about acts of resistance, like efforts by a crusading lawyer to help farmers fight unfair local taxes. He offers some thoughts on where China might be heading, but is generally...
...there be any person in the family deaf, dumb, idiotic, blind, insane, or pauper." The 1870 Census distinguished between farmers and "farm laborers" and between housekeepers and those just "keeping house." (Enumerators were also instructed to "use the word huckster in all cases where it applies.") Until the Civil War, surveys differentiated free people from slaves, who had historically counted as three-fifths of a person...
Upending predictions that Sri Lanka's first election since the end of its civil war would be a close fight, President Mahinda Rajapaksa easily beat his challenger, retired army commander General Sarath Fonseka, a former ally in the military victory over the separatist Tamil Tigers. The results of the largely peaceful election, announced Jan. 27, showed the President leading with 58% of the vote. Fonseka immediately rejected the results, alleging vote rigging, and claimed his life was under threat from the government...