Word: desmond
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...population growth. Sustaining that level is the key to ending famine in Africa. "The land needs irrigation, pesticides, fertilizer and other means of increasing production," says Saouma. "For the rest of this decade and the 1990s, food aid is not the priority issue. Food production is." --By Edward W. Desmond. Reported by Walter Galling/Rome and Alastair Matheson/Nairobi
...name of freedom, I nominate Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa as Man of the Year. Amha Eyesus Demessie Pasadena, Calif...
...Cincinnati and Division I-AA power Maine before that. The Crimson’s rise to national prominence over the course of the last decade has only aided Murphy in that effort, allowing him to successfully compete against major Division I conferences to secure commitments from top prospects like Desmond Bryant, who tallied 22 tackles and four sacks in his rookie campaign, and record-holding rusher Clifton Dawson, who transferred from Northwestern following a red-shirt freshman season...
...fashion, Richardson shrieks her way through Ruth's sordid life with coloratura bravura. "I love you," murmurs David Blakely (Rupert Everett), a spoiled, sodden rich boy with a passion for racing cars and a taste for tarts. "Everybody does," Ruth shrugs. "Why should you be different?" An older man, Desmond Cussen (Ian Holm), is Ruth's pal and protector, the one dour celibate in this tatty Sodom. Des is used to being used by Ruth; it is his way of feeling needed. He has the patience for her; David has the hots. Together, these qualities might make a decent lover...
...Robinson and TransAfrica have undertaken another ambitious project: collecting a million signatures denouncing the Rev. Jerry Falwell's accommodating view of the South African government, to be presented next month in a "freedom letter" to the Nobel laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu. TransAfrica had garnered 200,000 signatures by last week, and 50 members of Congress have volunteered to collect at least 1,000 additional signatures each from their constituents...