Word: slogans
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...educated ranks and often speak English. Deva speaks only Gondi, a local tongue. If he has a second language it is the strange, religious-like discipline of Maoism. Our conversations were punctuated with long silences as he turned questions over in his head before answering them, often with a slogan or a long monologue that sounded torn from the small collection of books and newspapers that his unit read and reread and then teach to local villagers. He began learning Maoism at eight, he said. Two of his five siblings are also Maoist fighters. They had a good childhood, helping...
...truth be told, the tradition of the fatigue-clad Latin American guerrilla, striking and vanishing through mountainous jungle terrain with a raised fist and a Marxist slogan, died years before Pedro Antonio Marin - known by his nom de guerre, Manuel Marulanda - passed away two months ago in a remote Colombian forest. But Marulanda's death by heart attack, confirmed over the weekend by the rebels he commanded for 44 years, makes it official: the Che Guevara era, like that of the hemisphere's military dictatorships, is over. And so, for all intents and purposes, is Marulanda's once feared...
...That slogan has been at the center of the company's marketing campaign, and Under Armour has an equally muscular business: over the past five years, the company's comfy, moisture-wicking shirts and shorts have helped it grow at a blistering 65% annual rate. Under Armour, which had $640 million in sales over the past year, had been scoring on the stock market too, making Plank's shares worth some $1 billion at the peak. But as Plank prepares to move the Under Armour brand out of its comfort zone into the cutthroat, $18.3 billion athletic-footwear market...
...birth of the Prince of Peace. Without much conviction, carolers sang Joy to the World outside Belfast's city hall, where a Union Jack hung limply from its pole and a signboard listed the latest number of military and civilian deaths?1,140 since 1969. Even the seasonal slogan jointly adopted by Ulster's Catholic and Protestant church leaders had a desperate quality about it: "For God's sake, let peace begin in our land this Christmas time...
After more than five years of sporadic terrorism and civil strife, few Ulstermen, regardless of their faith, had much hope that the slogan would ever reflect reality. This Christmas, however, promises to be a bit more tranquil than some that Northern Ireland has suffered in the past. Last week the leaders of the Irish Republican Army agreed to an eleven-day cease-fire starting Dec. 22. Terrorist operations were suspended, the I.R.A. announced, to let the British government consider the I.R.A.'s conditions for a permanent ceasefire...