Word: strife
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...million. The group aims to build infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa through the acquisition of construction, oil, gas, and power companies. With years of experience in international business, Abimbola attested to a recent change in the prospects for African development. While the continent had previously been plagued by political strife and corruption, he said, many African governments have taken steps towards reform. Due to greater political stability, young entrepreneurs now have the incentive and capability to succeed. “There is a generation of opportunity in Africa,” Abimola said. However, Abimola said, the continent?...
...With up to 2.9 million New Zealanders about to vote in the Nov. 8 national election, Clark's Labour government is in strife. Having trailed the John Key-led National Party by as much as 18 points during the campaign, it looks ripe for the kind of electoral execution to which all long-term governments are vulnerable - the kind where voters decide they're sick of the sight of you. Days out from polling, Clark's best hope rests in the vagaries of the country's Mixed Member Proportional voting system, which make it unlikely that either major party will...
...only I could feed him a potion and make him young again.' MONICA XANGATHI, Johannesburg resident, reminiscing about former leader Nelson Mandela as poverty and political strife continue to worsen in South Africa...
Harvard and the privileged students who attend it are insulated from most global strife. Crises ranging from malaria in Africa, to conflict in the Middle East, to extreme poverty in the United States create hardly a breeze in the rarified air at the top of the Ivory Tower. Unlike the days of our parents’ generation, when a combination of American foreign policy and bad grades could send an Eliot resident off to Vietnam, in the post-draft era most Harvard students can be assured of a comfortable existence after graduation regardless of major political developments...
Susan Glisson, the executive director of Ole Miss's William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, notes that a smattering of groups working against racial strife have sprung up in recent years and that any viable candidate for student-body president must now include race reconciliation as part of his or her platform. Still, Glisson admits that racial tension "is a substantial problem...