Word: sown
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...high-minded globalists who think that if you fix the economy, the other solutions will fall into line. On the one hand, manufacturers from Ireland to Japan are streaming into town. Some 400 maquiladoras, or assembly plants, have all but eliminated unemployment in Juarez and have sown the seeds of a stable middle class, "not Mexicans with sombreros," says Miguel Angel Giron, 26, an accountant at an auto-parts factory. But all the problems that booming trade creates are concentrated here as well; the potable water in the cities' common aquifer is set to run out in 25 years...
...innocent students of Mass Hall and Matthews now reap what the administration’s policy of non-confrontation has sown...
...Palestinians are poised for a revolution. And I am not referring to the war of resistance that has been going on against Israel since 1948. The new revolution--whose seeds were sown in the ill-fated Oslo Accords of 1993--will not be targeted at Israel. It will be against Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian National Authority...
...years, Carlos Castano and his paramilitary death squads have sown terror among civilians in rural areas of Colombia [WORLD, Nov. 27]. Castano's United Self-Defense Forces, the self-appointed exterminators of leftist rebels, label civilians as guerrilla sympathizers and thus make them "legitimate" targets of brutal attacks. Your article's semiheroic depiction of Castano failed to mention that he is responsible for the murder of dozens of peasants, indigenous leaders, union workers, academics, journalists and human-rights activists. JAUME VIDAL CASANOVAS ANA MARIA GOMEZ LOPEZ Washington...
...this week, because Oppenheimer claims Hillary made an anti-Jewish remark in 1974, on the night Bill lost his first campaign. His main source for the story has been interviewed by several other biographers, none of whom reports such a slur. Hillary dismisses the tale. But she has sown suspicion among some Jews by kissing the wife of Yasser Arafat and voicing support for Palestinian statehood. The story has already spurred tabloid headlines in New York. Now Rudy has a chance to express his empathy for Hillary...