Word: franticness
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Despite the frantic efforts of Latin American diplomats to broker a truce, many Bolivians see the political violence that has shaken their country over the past week as the opening salvos of a civil war. "There isn't a bone in her body that's not broken," says Narda Baqueros, a mother of three who traveled 15 hours to the town of Cobija to retrieve the body of her niece Belki Paz Baqueros on Monday. In her mid-20s and three months pregnant, Belki was beaten to death early Friday morning by opponents of Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales...
...Questions For a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable...
...shooting 79% from the field, like Bosh is. "Because you play solid defense, you stay in between your man and the ball, you rebound the basketball. Now, that turns into transition points. And then, when they see the physical stuff is not working, they get a little frantic. They get worried...
...mounting concern. As children from the country's expanding middle class come of age, universities are being blitzed with new students. In fields such as engineering and economics, there simply aren't enough high-caliber teachers to go around. "China lacks the educational infrastructure to keep pace with the frantic demand for education," says Tang Min, chief China economist at the Asian Development Bank. A human-resources executive who helped produce a report on the subject for the American Chamber of Commerce in China puts it more bluntly: "the vast majority of [Chinese] kids go to second- or third-rate...
...Parliament, verbal exchanges frequently dissolved into shouting matches. Speeches by Singh and Rahul Gandhi, scion of India's most storied political family, were interrupted by incessant heckling. Prior to the debate, frantic lobbying for votes by numerous political organizations, including opposition parties trying to unseat Singh, produced some eyebrow-raising compromises, the details of which were widely publicized. Six members of India's Parliament, including two convicted of murder while in office, were furloughed from prison so they could cast votes (while questionable, this is not illegal). The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a small central Indian political party, reportedly threw...