Word: millennium
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...further fought for the empowerment of repressed and minority groups, as well as for development initiatives which have fed, clothed, housed, powered and educated tens of thousands. Consider the unanimously adopted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a series of measurable targets in areas ranging from poverty reduction to women’s rights. Each MDG signatory works to meet those targets by 2015. And, as we dress up for Halloween, we remember how we dropped pennies into UNICEF boxes every October in order inoculate children in Africa, raising $188 million...
...Compounding Roh's problems is his increasing political isolation, which leaves him vulnerable to attack. On Sept. 29 he quit the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), ending a testy relationship with party bosses. Roh, who is now temporarily without political affiliation, is expected to join a new party formed recently by 42 renegade MDP and GNP lawmakers. That group, tentatively called the United New Party for Participatory Citizens, hopes that Roh's reformist credentials will help it win seats in the 273-member legislature during next April's parliamentary elections, possibly enough of them to form a majority coalition to battle...
...investigation issued its first criminal charge last week and began to shift to a second set of mutual fund trades--those by Millennium Partners, a $4 billion hedge fund run by storied Wall Street investor Israel Englander. And Spitzer wasn't the only cop on the Wall Street beat. The NASD, a securities-industry regulator, had settled a separate case with Morgan Stanley, which it charged with offering brokers improper incentives to push in-house funds that might not be best for its clients...
...Things fall apart,” Yeats wrote; “the centre cannot hold.” Prefiguring the war, terror and bloodshed that quickly followed the dawn of our new millennium, he spoke of a “blood-dimmed tide” drowning “the ceremony of innocence.” He reads as though scolding a spineless Democratic Party when lamenting that “the best lack all convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Eventually, the mystical poem goes farther than we would. When Yeats?...
...write to address a serious mischaracterization in your article about our scientific results on the evidence for changes in temperature and climate during the last millennium (News, “Warming Study Draws Fire,” Sept...