Word: mende
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...That's not a message Australian officials want to hear as they try to mend the worst breach in relations with Indonesia since Australian peacekeepers were sent to East Timor six years ago. Nor will it calm Indonesians who claim that, by giving all but one of the group visas, Australia is meddling in their country's affairs and stoking separatist fervor. The men, women and children landed in a homemade outrigger canoe on the far northern Queensland coast in January. Since then, their case has led to the recalling of Indonesia's ambassador, prompted an increase in Indonesian naval...
Capitalism is nothing if not adaptive, and its champions have responded to global warming with a market-based solution that provides polluters with a profit incentive to mend their ways. It's called cap and trade, and it is the mechanism behind the so-called carbon markets spawned by the Kyoto Protocol. Firms in developed countries that pump out more CO2 than they are allowed under limits imposed by Kyoto are required by the protocol to offset that pollution by buying credits on the carbon market. Those that cut CO2 emissions below their allowance or help polluters in developing nations...
Summers pledged to mend ties with the Faculty, and despite calls for his resignation, he said last spring that he had never considered stepping down...
...stand by as Muslims were herded out of Srebrenica to a massacre. Other European allies are nervous about what they may have let themselves in for during the bullish period of a year ago. Then it seemed like offering to help in Afghanistan would be a good way to mend fences with the U.S. over Iraq. Nato has been running the International Security Assistance Force (isaf) since 2003. The plan now is to boost isaf to 15,000 troops and allow some U.S. forces to withdraw. The expanded Nato force will add a further six provinces...
...which gangs ruled by threat, violence and blackmail. The police, much less firefighters, doctors and nurses, did not dare enter. The French integration model is a fraud. The various steps that the state has taken and that are going to cost the taxpayers billions of dollars will temporarily mend the situation. But in the long term, the gap between the two communities will not close until the French of immigrant descent are properly educated and trained and the nation can give them real jobs and decent housing. Knowing my countrymen, I figure that will take a while, if it ever...