Word: cocoa
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...conflict cocoa...
DEFINITION kon-flikt ko-ko n: Profits from the cocoa trade used to finance civil war in Africa's Ivory Coast...
CONTEXT The Ivory Coast is the world's biggest producer of cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, but what fans of the sweet treat don't know is that both sides in the country's civil war are using cocoa revenues to buy weapons and fund militias. In its report "Hot Chocolate," the London-based group Global Witness is calling for international efforts to "break the links between the cocoa trade and the armed conflict...
...USAGE Cocoa joins "blood diamonds" as a natural resource used to underwrite strife. Look for more groups to call attention to the bloodshed that First World countries and consumers may unwittingly finance...
...spends 60 hours per week in “Second Life” doing Linden Dollar arbitrage. DA blocked with five black guys, and you can imagine how that turned out. Now he won’t even go to the dining hall without using half a bottle of cocoa butter. You have already chosen your blocking group, so kudos; you now have one of the worst decisions of your life behind you. Or, you got blockstabbed (1) once or twice and ended up turning in a tear-soaked floater form. If so, good for you, you won?...