Word: onslaughts
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...After 20 years of independence in Zimbabwe, surprisingly little has changed. White farmers are again facing a black insurgency - only now it represents a government seemingly bent on destroying them, even if it destroys the country. The turmoil in Chinhoyi is the latest in an 18-month onslaught against the white farming community since Mugabe declared a "fast-track" policy of seizing more than 90% of white-owned farmland for black resettlement. Nine white farmers have died in the accompanying violence. Scores of black farm workers have been injured, and thousands more have been driven from the land by militant...
...nation Southern African Development Community moved to set up a team to "engage in dialogue" with Mugabe and his government. There is little evidence the message is getting through. But if Mugabe were to visit the once-prosperous, now devastated farms of Chinhoyi, he might conclude that his onslaught against democracy...
...arguably would have been stronger, more cosmopolitan and better equipped to combat the brutal assaults of the Western powers and Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries. When outsiders with advanced technologies, big guns and missionary zeal began prying the country open, China could do little to repel the onslaught. The 21st century might well turn out to be China's, but hundreds of years were lost when the Confucians trumped the eunuch-explorers. "If the foreign expeditions had been sustained, the world would be very different now," says Kong Lingren, a 69-year-old former civil servant...
...instance, were available days before the movie's premiere. Ticket revenues have declined by more than 40% since three years ago, and half as many movies are being made today as in 1998. And with China's eventual entry into the World Trade Organization, domestic moviemakers will face an onslaught of Hollywood blockbusters. Although Feng's Be There, Be Square scored $5 million at the box office, that's paltry compared to the $40 million Titanic raked in. "Unless we develop directors like Feng Xiaogang, our industry is in trouble," says Wang Zhonglei, Big Shot's executive producer. "We have...
...Facing a media onslaught after the verdict, Bartell officials tried to effect a nonchalant demeanor Wednesday, insisting plans to cover contraceptives in their health plan were launched long before Erickson?s case was completed. No word yet on whether the company will file an appeal...