Word: proportionate
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White and black South Africans who believe that racial change is inevitable had hoped to demonstrate in Natal that apartheid could be dismantled by ballots rather than bullets. The province, although it has a low proportion of whites, seemed an auspicious testing ground. Relations between the 569,000 whites, 6...
Although there are exceptions (Somalia is one), civil wars are more likely to afflict countries that are divided by ethnicity, religion and/or language. (Think of Bosnia as well as Iraq.) They are also more likely to break out where a substantial proportion of the population is male and from 15...
Suppose you are one of the many Harvard students who illicitly uses marijuana on a regular basis. And now imagine the worst case scenario: you are enjoying a post-exam spliff in the company of friends in a private bedroom. Then, from the door, an ominous voice intones, â?...
Equally thorny is the status of the giant oil fields around Kirkuk, whose capacity is about 700,000 barrels a day, and which the Kurds claim as their own. Under the new law those revenues - like those from elsewhere - will flow into a new national Oil Fund and then be...
Yet these solutions still aren't reaching the vast proportion of Africans in need. Hard as it is for us to imagine, Africa's households simply can't afford even $10 for a net, or a dollar for medicines when a child falls sick. Nor can African governments carry these...