Word: millenniums
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...make a big contribution to education, HIV/AIDS, the main killer diseases, building up a proper peacekeeping force, we won't reach the millennium development goals [targets for poverty reduction agreed to in 2000] or anywhere near. We want a doubling of aid, up to $25 billion in the next few years, so we're hoping America will do [its part...
...June 21, “I’m not going to make a commitment that I am not sure that the government will be able to keep,” he said. This is in spite of Canada’s declaration, made as part of its Millennium Development Goals in 2000, that it would reach the 0.7 percent target...
...demanded an immediate end to slavery, equal rights for all men and women, and the redistribution of land so that no one would be rich and no one poor. Such measures, he argued, would fulfill the "principles in the Declaration of Independence" and "prepare the earth for a millennium of righteousness and peace." Lincoln was a moderate; he concluded (as did most Americans) that the Constitution defended slavery in states where it already existed. But, like Douglass, he emphasized that the Declaration was the centerpiece of government. It was the "apple of gold" within the Constitution's "picture of silver...
...troops in Lebanon ... Syria has become the key player in that fractured country's future ... Syrians consider Lebanon to be part of 'Greater Syria,' a vague concept of territorial grandeur that thrives more in memory than in reality. Indeed, the two countries share more than a millennium of history. Both Lebanon and Syria achieved independence in the 1940s, but cultural and family ties still bind their populations ... Says a Syrian official: 'Lebanon is the one issue on which any Syrian President would be prepared to take the greatest risk' ... At some point or another, every Lebanese faction has sought Syria...
...conspiracy theorists, the Bush Administration had tapped Wolfowitz for the job to prove that World Bank-style aid doesn't work. A satirical staff newsletter imagined that instead of bopping around Washington in a limousine, Wolfowitz would travel in an Apache helicopter. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, head of the U.N. Millennium Project to reduce global poverty, hunger and disease, questioned Wolfowitz's lack of economic and banking experience. "I have looked for evidence of Mr. Wolfowitz having development goals - I have tried to find it in his speeches, and I haven't been able to," Sachs has said. But Wolfowitz...