Word: unkept
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...direct showdown with the U.S. His rabid anti-Americanism, which previously failed to connect with the majority of Shi'ites, now strikes a chord. A year after the war began, their tolerance is exhausted. The lower rungs of society are fed up with the slow pace of reconstruction and unkept U.S. promises of a better life. Suspicion is rife that America's murky plans for a political transition on June 30 will somehow thwart Shi'ite claims to a rightful share of power. On the streets in the Khadamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, al-Sadr's outspoken defiance made quiescent...
...from the Caribbean 40 years ago, said five years was too mild a punishment. "Give them life - if they carry a gun they mean to kill," he said to applause. For the government, the strength of public feeling on the subject is an uncomfortable reminder of an old promise unkept. In the early '90s, Tony Blair famously vowed that in power, Labour would be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime." The delivery time for that promise is now running...