Word: thirst
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...PAKISTAN Thirst for Change Two bomb blasts rocked the city of Karachi at the start of a one-day strike to protest government policies. The attacks, which killed one person and injured two others, followed overnight rioting during which police arrested 238 people. It was unclear whether the blasts were connected to the strike called by two regional groups to protest political and social issues, including the government's failure to deal with a chronic water shortage...
...companies. Other high scorers are Renault and BNP Paribas. Confidence Trick While its rivals issue profit warnings, German software giant SAP forecast 20% growth in sales in the first half of the year and announced an alliance with Yahoo to develop corporate websites. Shares rose 8%. Working Up a Thirst Labor unions voted to strike over a planned packaging-plant closure at Irish brewer Guinness, which produces 4 million pints of its famous dark stout...
...media should always be viewed with some degree of healthy skepticism. But when every decision is reviewed for its political overtones, when every newspaper is supported as an ally or combated as an opponent, when all interest in independent and fair assessment is replaced by a thirst for patronage and payback, society--and university campuses--will have lost something very great indeed...
...learn from her professional example too. So we are establishing the Joanna Chapman Development Grant, a vocational training scholarship to be awarded annually. The judges won't care which branch of the Time family the winner works for; they'll just be looking for someone with Joanna?s genuine thirst for knowledge. This, I hope, will be a fitting memorial to the extraordinarily brave young woman whom we all-Church and State alike-miss very much...
...first one, Kgalagadi, which means Land of Thirst, was created last year by merging two parks that straddled the border of South Africa and Botswana. The combination is a 14,600-sq.-mi. wilderness area in which tourists and animals can move freely. Since the formal opening last May, tourist traffic has been projected to triple to 150,000 visitors annually. A Peace Parks Club run by the foundation offers 10-day tours of the park that include tracking wild game on foot with experienced rangers of the San tribe, the indigenous bushmen of the Kalahari...