Word: statement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson, meanwhile, travels to Providence this Saturday to face the Brown Bears. Harvard will try to clinch sole possession the Ivy title and make a forceful statement before entering the 48-team NCAA Tournament...
...really ensure that these faltering governments survive the loans must be erased. Or else, the dangerous murmurs will rise again from their populace: Na democracy man go chop? To those not versed in Pidgin English (a miscegenous legacy of the colonial era) the literal translation of this statement means, "is it democracy that we will...
According to Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, the answer to the question, "Na democracy man go chop?" is a simple yes. Sen's bold statement can be paraphrased as follows. Famine does not occur in nations committed to the rule of democracy because elected governments know that the way to the people's vote is through their stomachs. This piece of advice will ring especially true for Nigeria if the military engine is successfully diverted to agricultural productivity...
After each councillor gave a brief statement, a roll call vote was taken...
...have a book to sell, a campaign to run or a vast right-wing conspiracy to denounce--as Matt Lauer learned in his 1998 interview with Hillary Clinton on NBC's Today--you do the morning shows. Says Lauer: "It used to be that if there was a major statement, a politician would come out at 4 p.m., because it'd be on all the nightly newscasts at 6:30. Now they're going to give it to one of the morning shows first...