Word: revolt
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...island traces its troubles to protests in 1989 against Bougainville Copper Limited's mine. A local landowner, Ona led others in demands for compensation and tighter environmental controls. The P.N.G. military was brought in to suppress the revolt, and the conflict evolved into a secessionist rebellion that eventually claimed the lives of between 12,000 and 15,000 people, according to the U.N. While other elements of the original independence fighters signed a ceasefire in 1998, Ona has vowed to occupy the mine and surrounding regions until Bougainville is granted independence...
...revolt against Arafat's cronies...
...changes have not led to open revolt by vested interests, although it appears politicians have been persuaded to abandon a useful forestry reform bill. Batley has not yet run into the sort of stalemate that would force ramsi to attach more stringent conditions to its program - or require heavy prodding from Canberra. While ramsi officials labor the point that the intervention is a regional response, there's little doubt in anyone's mind that this is Australia's show. Invited in or not, Canberra could not have a failed state on its doorstep: humanitarian concerns aside, lawlessness and anarchy...
...bright and personable, but he's just a kid," says Porter Bibb, managing partner of investment firm Mediatech Capital. "If something happened to Rupert in the next year or two and the board handed the company to Lachlan, there would be a shareholder revolt." Lachlan currently serves as deputy chief operating officer at News, with responsibility for the Fox TV stations, HarperCollins and the New York Post. He has a bit of a renegade-playboy image with his tattooed forearm and his actress wife Sarah O'Hare, who is a former Revlon and Wonderbra model...
...third, definitely less palatable option, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Black voters could send a very strong message to the Democrats and do what evangelicals did in 2000—stay home until their agenda is represented. Whichever path black voters take, Democrats should know that revolt is in the air on the plantation, and the slaves are finally tired of working for free...