Word: civilizing
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...April 13-1861 Washington thank God we have a government Jonth Dillon.' JONATHAN DILLON, watchmaker, in a newly discovered message engraved in a pocket watch repaired for Abraham Lincoln on the day after the Civil War began...
...capitalized on voter disaffection with widespread poverty and soaring crime rates to win 51% of the vote. Funes, who styles himself as a political moderate in the mold of popular Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, pledged to unite a government still strained by the 1980-92 civil war, in which more than 70,000 people perished...
...There was no memo, no guidance. This is the opinion of a career civil servant.' U.S. Office of Management and Budget spokesman KENNETH BAER, on an e-mail from the Defense Department declaring that George W. Bush's phrase war on terror would be replaced by overseas contingency operation...
...that organizers promised would be massive. The mounting tensions prompted Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to warn opposition groups during a sternly delivered televised address that his government would take "decisive action" against demonstrators if they incited rioting or broke the law, vowing that the country would not descend into civil...
...words "civil war" have been thrown around by many Thais this week as government members, supporters and others are concerned that red shirt leaders will attempt to provoke a violent response from security forces - or even stage an attack on their own members and make it appear the work of security forces to turn the public against the government. Thaksin has promised this demonstration will be larger than those pivotal years. Red shirt leaders have said they will marshal at least 300,000 protesters, but few analysts expect they will be able to raise more than a third of that...