Word: lande
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...more than half of Americans who oppose the move that the funds will not be drawn from new debt but rather from existing dollars appropriated earlier this year in the energy bill. This is the same modernization fund the automakers were banking on to get them from SUV-land to Hybrid-world, so it's likely that come January President-elect Barack Obama will have to find or print fresh resources to help keep the ailing companies on the road. In other words, the $15 billion bridge fund Congress is expected to approve in the coming days is only...
...caused the Colombian co-pilot to speak timidly to the air traffic control booth’s gruff New Yorker. Even as the plane was running out of gas and was in grave danger of crashing, the Colombian co-pilot did not assert the need for the plane to land. When asked, according to the flight log, “Is that okay with you and your fuel,” the co-pilot merely responded, “I guess so. Thank you very much.” Gladwell closed the story, and his talk, with a description...
...kinds of groups with the deliberate purpose of eradicating them. The intent is key; in Darfur, for example, some have argued that it is impossible to prove that the Sudanese Janjaweed militias are trying to eradicate entire groups; they may, in fact, just want to displace them from disputed land. However criminal that may be, it is not automatically genocidal. The criteria have been a source of debate and have often made prosecuting genocide a complicated legal undertaking, despite the somewhat common use of the label in the media. (See pictures of Kristallnacht and its survivors...
...society. They have positions in government, in the police, in the army and in business. Though they have largely relinquished their tanks and heavy artillery, most have been able to maintain their core militias in the form of private security companies, political parties or loose business networks. Allegations of land grabs, rape, murder and kidnapping are rife. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Afghan human rights organizations such as Samimi's have documented extortion rackets run by former warlords and militia-run prisons where captives are held for ransom. Afghan journalists covering their crimes have been harassed by police...
...Potential locations for the campaign’s proposed land acquisition include both Canada and Allston...