Word: conceicao
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...relentlessly the refugee numbers increase. When two trucks with 200 more evacuees arrive, officials are close to despair. "These are the last we can receive," says Maria de Conceicao Araujo, who heads Malanje's social-welfare effort. "The local people don't have enough to eat." Yet Malanje is more fortunate than other enclaves. Kuito, the besieged capital of Bie province, has not seen one foreign aid delivery since January...
...play," he repeated. No one thought so after the U.S. obliterated them by 68 points. But the next day, Angola led Germany, only to fall short by a point in the last minute. "We were very lucky," says German center Hansi Gnad. The host Spaniards were not. Behind Jean Conceicao's 22 points, the Angolans buried the favored home team 83-63 in the upset of the week. Angola can definitely play...
...workers who gave the computer its name, who call it simply "the machine," its advent is not as impressive as it is for management. Leyla Reddy, a clerk, says "at first it was fun because it was something different," and Conceicao A. Peixoto, who works in the payroll office, says that the work became "very interesting" when the computer came in last year. By now, however, the bloom has come off the rose; even though the machine has splintered the time needed to track down an error in the payroll from days to smithereens of seconds, it has lost...
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