Word: equally
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...today's generation, medium and content are on equal footing. Should I decide to join Twitter, my first tweet would be this: "Nothing can replace face-to-face communication." Sherwin Diaz Castillo, Manila...
...expecting 4.9% growth in 2009 and 7.5% next year. While the G-8 leaders discuss how to help, some parts of Africa are getting on with business. "Whereas Africa had military rule and dictatorships, today we have 18 or 19 functioning democracies," Johnson Sirleaf tells TIME. "Africa is growing equal to or better than all other regions. We have gone from [a stance of] noninterference in our internal affairs to respect for the principle of the responsibility to protect, so that today Africa is intervening in African countries where governments have suppressed the rights of their people. Major changes...
What's the outlook for Liberia? We formulated a national vision which seeks to have a peaceful, prosperous country in an environment [of] equal opportunity and equity [for] all, where the rule of law is preserved and [government] transparency and accountability is respected. We're tackling infrastructure [and reactivating] our mines, forests and agriculture. We [got] all the U.N. sanctions lifted on our diamonds and forestry. We restructured the civil service and scaled down government. [We are working on] the restoration of basic services, such as schools and the improvement in conditions of our market people. If there's anything...
...basic needs met. All of our institutions restored. Liberia can become a post-conflict success story, along the lines of Rwanda and Mozambique. That's our target. Ten years, and we should be where Rwanda is today. [It's part of a pattern] across the continent. Africa is growing equal to or better than all the other regions. Whereas we had military rule and dictatorships, today we have 18 or 19 functioning democracies. Look at how we have gone from [a stance of] non-interference in our internal affairs to respect for the principle of the responsibility to protect...
...Staff, predicted that a shock-and-awe strategy would bomb Saddam Hussein's Iraq into submission. That - and the tech-heavy force that then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sent into Iraq to stumble and falter for four years - hewed to the American way of war, one that was equal parts laser beams and hubris. But the military has rethought its strategy. "You can shock and awe human beings," McChrystal says, "but it doesn't last. I've seen operations where kinetic strikes would go in on a target, and the enemy would come out shooting. They weren't awed...