Word: trade
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...worst in a series of famines that ravaged Ireland, was a period of great trial for a people already deeply affected by 800 years of English occupation and tyranny. Most had been reduced to lives of subsistence farming. English laws and landlords did not allow the trade of traditional Irish goods and grazed their own cattle upon large chunks of Irish land that they now "owned." Catholics were discriminated against, tenants were evicted, and the Irish language was forcibly superceded by English...
...Museveni's generosity hasn't stopped him from exporting more Congolese gold last year than any other nation in the region--trade he swears was legitimate. Congo's civil war has destroyed what was once a promising personal alliance between Kabila and Museveni, men who seemed to embody a new kind of progressive African leadership. "Museveni is a nigger like Mobutu," Kabila says of his onetime ally. "He's an exploiter." Says Museveni: "Kabila was always weak, but I didn't know he would also be so treacherous...
...They're all shortstops by trade," Walsh said. "Mager has good speed, which fits into our system nicely, and Shakir's got a good glove, and he's very quick. He can bunt, run, slash, hit-and-run and he may be a second baseman of the future...
...They're all shortstops by trade," Walsh said. "Mager has good speed, which fits into our system nicely, and Shakir's got a good glove, and he's very quick. He can bunt, run, slash, hit-and-run and he may be a second baseman of the future...
...like banging on pots and pans when you were little? We did. Let Gary Burton, jazz musician and three-time Grammy Award-winner, take you back. In teaching you the Art of Improvisation, he'll reveal the tricks of the percussion trade. Good stuff to know. Longfellow Hall, Graduate School of Education. 6 p.m. FREE...