Word: sown
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...prominent al-Qaeda commanders over the past fortnight. If confirmed, the deaths would be further blows to the terrorist group. Last month, Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban and a key al-Qaeda ally, was killed in a remote part of South Waziristan. Mehsud's death has sown discord among his followers, with the new leader struggling to maintain control of the increasingly fractious alliance. The tribal areas "can no longer be described as a safe haven," says a senior Western diplomat with approval...
...better able to spend, which could further fuel the region's nascent rebound. But just as easily, Asia could soon find itself saddled with overheated markets similar to the U.S. housing market of a few years ago - and on the brink of another crash. "The seeds are being sown for Asia's next bubble," HSBC economist Frederic Neumann said in a recent report. "The world has not changed, it just moved places." (Read "Asian Nations Step Up Support as Crisis Rolls...
...aired the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live. And also in 1975, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing invited the heads of state and government from West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States to a summit in his country. The seeds were sown for what we now know as the Group of Eight...
...draped with yellow-tinged leaves. The contrast is deliberate, an advertisement for the wares Odiambo sells from his roadside supply shop in western Kenya. While the shopkeeper's robust plots were planted with commercial seed and carefully nurtured with inorganic fertilizer, his sickly specimens are the result of seeds sown in the bare ground. "We wanted to have a control plot, to show the difference," he says...
...Brother watching? A Department of Homeland Security program calls for the installation of around 180 surveillance cameras in the Boston metropolitan area, including eight in Cambridge—a prospect that has sown confusion and concern on the Cambridge City Council. In response, the Cambridge Civic Unity Committee, chaired by City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, will be holding a meeting on Jan. 22 to discuss the surveillance program and to address community concerns. “The fact that [the cameras] were installed is news to me, and to most of my colleagues,” Decker said...