Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public shares on the New York Stock Exchange in 1994, the government sold off 30% of its interest. Then Jonah went shopping, acquiring mining interests and prospecting rights in 15 other African states. Instead of confirming that any multinational company involving foreign owners will only exploit African labor and steal Africa's natural resources for the benefit of shareholders overseas, Rawlings and Jonah have turned Ashanti into a model for made-in-Africa industrialization...
...child soldier supposed to look like? Felfiel Manhica's are downcast and blank in a face that rarely smiles. He is 22 now, still undersize and boyish, but he was just 13 when rebel Renamo soldiers crept into the hamlet of Taninga before dawn in 1988 to steal food and took him too. They threatened to execute him, armed him with an AK-47 assault rifle and turned him into a pitiless killing machine aimed at his family, friends and neighbors on the government side of Mozambique's civil war. "They told me I must fight in order...
...some of the little things in each ballgame to get guys on base," Walsh said. "We rely on the bunt, we rely on the hit-and-run, we try to steal bases. If we can do those things, we're going to score some runs. If we try to rely on guys going yard each time, we're not going to have much success...
...after All-American Allison Feaster capped a 35-point, 13-rebound performance with a key steal and two crucial free throws in the waning seconds of the game, even the crowed of 5,000 plus fans--the vast majority of them Stanford supporters--sat silently in disbelief of what was happening to their beloved Cardinal...
...many lovers / Who settled for the thrill / Of basking in my spotlight / I never felt / So happy." The song ends with a rejection of all the Material Girl once held dear "No handsome stranger, heady danger / Drug that I can try / No ferris wheel, no heart to steal / No laughter in the dark / No one night stand, no far off land / No fire that I can spark." The ending of the song is irresistibly cryptic: "And now, I find / I've changed my mind." And then you hear her final whisper, "This is my religion...