Word: mdp
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...Last week, during the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon expressed worries that financial problems in the United States might deter leaders from living up to pledges for the Millennium Development Project (MDP). For the U.S., it would certainly be impossible to fund two wars plus the bailout, and still help the poorest of the poor. And yet, the instinctual responses to catastrophe—protectionism, withdrawal from the international political and economic community, and decreased foreign aid—must be challenged. On the edge of a global recession lies the perfect opportunity...
...President couldn't muster the votes to fend off impeachment. Roh isolated himself politically last fall when he bolted the ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) after a period of strained relations with party leaders. Last week, MDP lawmakers teamed up with legislators from the conservative GNP to oust him. Knowing they would lose a vote, members of the pro-Roh Uri Party?which holds only 47 of the Assembly's 273 seats?tried to block the March 12 balloting by forming a human shield around the Speaker's podium, hoping to prevent him from taking his seat and calling...
...February ? Roh is sworn in as the country's ninth President, succeeding the founder of his Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), Kim Dae Jung...
...September ? Political infighting results in Roh quitting the MDP. Thirty-seven of his supporters also defect, and form the Uri Party...
...with little sense of realpolitik. Many of them are former left-leaning activists and lawyers, and some are longtime Roh acolytes who see the world much as he sees it?sharing what has come to be referred to as the same "code." An official of the MDP says, "If you know the code, you are [Roh's] friend...