Word: land
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...anyone. Buthelezi was appointed to his post by the Pretoria government and receives "a not-ungenerous salary from the South African state." (11) The original idea for a Kwazulu-Natal indaba came from the South African Sugar Association, seeking to protect its sugar estates from falling under the communal land tenure that prevails on the Kwazulu bantustan. It was seconded by the Buthelezi Commission, which hoped to separate political planning "from popular participation, and placed decision-making in consensus sessions between leaders representing various constituencies...
...WASN'T exactly like a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, although a lot of the cement was painted gold to resemble Jerusalem stone. And there were nightly crucifixions...
After the shelling stopped, a Navy SEAL (Sea, Air and Land) commando team in a rubber Zodiac raft tied explosives to the pilings that remained and demolished them. Five miles away, a second SEAL team boarded another oil platform abandoned hours earlier by Iranians and destroyed communications and other equipment...
...Wall Street investment bank. But he is not satisfied. Fox dreams of scoring the big trades. He gets his chance when he meets the wealthy corporate raider Gordon Gekko. "I'm offering you rich," says Gekko. Enticed, Fox takes off into the stratosphere of high finance, only to crash-land a year later...
Belgium is a land of 5.6 million Dutch-speaking Flemings, 3.2 million French- speaking Walloons and, since World War II, no fewer than 33 governments. Most of those formed since the late 1960s have faltered over the contentious question of who should speak what language where. Last week the issue claimed its latest victim as Prime Minister Wilfried Martens resigned...