Word: portly
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...Nkrumah embarked on an ambitious program, building schools, houses, roads, a new port, factories. Ghana, its new leader argued, must be weaned off trade and investment from Britain and the other colonial powers. The construction industry boomed. Kwame got a job with the state housing corporation, building barracks for the army. "People were happy, more people were learning trades, schools were opening all over the place, we were feeling fine." In 1961, he and Theresa had Suzzy, the first of four girls. Kwame began spending long periods away from home, working on houses for those displaced by the massive Volta...
...various bands wind through the streets of Port-of-Spain, the masqueraders pass in front of stages to be judged. It becomes easy to forget that anything other than Carnival ever took place here. Trinis are a very proud lot and both they and Brazilians claim to have the largest Carnival. At this point, I'm not one to gauge the nationalistic claims. Let's save that for the rest of the week, when I'm nursing my aching legs...
...Wednesday in Trinidad and Tobago, the 100,000 people who have taken to the streets make it a point to forget quite a few things. First among these is a sense of self-control, exchanging it for alcohol-infused abandon as they trek around the capital city of Port-of-Spain; second and most noticeably, they forget much of their clothing. But this is Carnival, and for Trinidadians the entire social year revolves around this event - which also attracts tens of thousands of foreigners, like myself, who themselves become Trini, if only for a short time...
...What will be the balance between gdp growth and the environment? Will politicians continue to undermine an open market? In N.S.W., for example, the state government has granted BlueScope an exemption from its carbon trading scheme or any future carbon tax to help establish a new steel plant at Port Kembla...
...which they martyr one another 24/7, including on Muslim holy days and at Muslim holy sites, or whether they want to build a better tomorrow in this world. If they want us to leave, they don't need to kill anyone. They could just vote! Peter Feinman Port Chester, New York...