Word: reconstruction
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...fascistic tendencies, territorial ambitions and an ominously large popular following. The U.S. might then find itself dragged back into another open-ended international crisis that would make the meagerness of its current aid program seem penny-wise and pound-foolish. After all, the Marshall Plan and other programs to reconstruct Germany and Japan after World War II were arguably as important to avoiding World War III as was the containment of communism...
...Both sides have a genuine interest in getting closer to the other. The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf. Iran wishes to reconstruct its economy and play a fuller part in the community of nations -- and that's legitimate. My part is a tiny part in that equation -- it's big for me, but it's a tiny part...
...after various African agricultural festivals, and the name derives from the Swahili word for first fruit of the harvest. It was created by Maulana Karenga, a black-studies professor at California State University, Long Beach. The purpose of the holiday, he says, is to help black people "rescue and reconstruct our history and culture and shape them in our own image...
Maintaining this delicate balance of the historical and the lyrical throughout, Aridjis manages both to reconstruct a world and to keep it alight with poetic insight. Fully in command of the irony that drives this novel, Aridjis steers 1492 clear of the countless obstacles that confront a fictional history of this magnitude. This other history of 1492 is one of the most compelling to appear...
Since joining the resistance to the putsch attempt in August, Shevardnadze has been watching from the sidelines as the power of the central government has drained away to the ascendant republics. His decision to rejoin Mikhail Gorbachev is likely to lend credibility to the Soviet President's efforts to reconstruct a union and to solicit Western aid for the ailing economy...