Word: succor
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...Seselj's re-emergence reflects a more general frustration among Serbian voters with their democratically elected leadership, which, two years after Milosevic's ouster, has yet to produce the kind of economic results that many Serbs had hoped for. Seselj insists he is running to flush out corruption and succor the poor. But for Serbs like Nikola Barovic, a human rights lawyer who was once kicked in the head by Seselj's bodyguard, his campaign means "the catastrophe of the Milosevic era is still going on." Next week's election represents Serbs' third try in less than three months...
...Nidal was a relic of a bygone era in which terrorists were wholly dependent on the sanctuary and succor of states - and therefore acted primarily as proxies of their patron at the time. Like the PFLP-trained Venezuelan Carlos the Jackal, the Japanese Red Army and Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang, Abu Nidal embarked on a career of mercenary mass murder in the early 1970s, eventually counting among his clients Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran and possibly others, and generally collecting between $1 million and $3 million per operation. And as the others fell by the wayside, he became...
...troops busy in Afghanistan more than six months after Karzai's transitional administration was first installed in Kabul. Clearly, the mission involves more than simply mopping up a few desperadoes. It looks likely to continue as long as Mullah Omar and his ilk are able to find support and succor among the locals...
...matched set of articles published online by the British science journal Nature last week seemed calculated to provide succor to both sides in the simmering stem-cell debate. In one study, University of Minnesota researchers isolated bone-marrow cells from adult mice, grew them in dishes and injected them into mouse embryos, where they developed into nerve, liver and other types of cells. In the other study, scientists from the National Institutes of Health did similar work with stem cells from mouse embryos, which developed into brain cells that produce dopamine and could be used to treat Parkinson's disease...
...Hong Kong, a series of questionable backroom transactions?including the proposed Boto deal?has so raised the ire of stock owners that Andrew Sheng, chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, was forced to respond. His open letter to investors offered no succor. Sheng wrote ". . . if it is purely an issue of competence or a history of bad decision making impacting on value, and the rules have not been violated, the ultimate practical remedy for investors may be to sell...