Word: lifeblood
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...Gambian port of Farafenni is a ghost town. Bereft of customers, traders are closing their shops, pulling down corrugated shutters and tugging on the padlocks to make sure they're secure. A two-month-old dispute between Gambia and its enveloping neighbor Senegal has cut river crossings, the lifeblood of Farafenni's business, to a trickle. "This is hurting both of us," says port tax collector Karamo Marong, counting out a thin clump of sweaty bills that is his day's meager haul. "And it's ordinary people who suffer." At issue is not just bureaucracy but the crazy quilt...
...sensibilities," says Melbourne solicitor Murray Baird, a specialist in church law. "The Act does not achieve this. In my view it will lead to a general fear of speaking openly and plainly about religious matters." In free societies, says Australian Family Association vice-president Bill Muehlenberg, passion is the lifeblood of religious debate: "If you're serious about your faith and its truth claims, you're bound to be offended at times, or to cause offense." Elizabeth Kendal, a Melbourne-based religious liberty monitor for the World Evangelical Alliance, believes laws like Victoria's will undermine all but the most...
...from 2% in the first four years of the decade. That growth rate, said the IMF, could help developing countries boost exports by 5% to 6% each year and thus ease their loan burdens. In the meantime, though, the debtor nations have to continue hoping that the lifeblood of credit from the IMF and banks will keep flowing. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York with other bureaus
...homes are expected to change hands this year, generating sales commissions of $60 billion. Predictably, the big Realtors aren't going without a fight. In response to the new threat, the National Association of Realtors (N.A.R.) has proposed guidelines that would restrict online agents' access to the industry's lifeblood: multiple real estate listings--the Holy Grail for home shoppers--which are maintained on the association's regional databases...
...Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, last week's annual Policy Address should have been an opportunity to brag. The economy has revived after seven lean years and the scary days of SARS. Millions of mainland tourists are streaming across the border. And prices for property, the economy's lifeblood, have zoomed up by more than 30% in the last year. Yet last week, Tung stood at the rostrum of the Legislative Council looking like he'd rather be in the dentist's chair. "We fell short of thinking what people think and addressing people's pressing needs," he confessed...