Word: unrested
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...country is reaching a boiling point is heightened by its own estimates, which show that in 2003, some 3 million citizens engaged in 58,000 public protests, up 15% compared with the previous year. Figures for last year are not available, but there's been no apparent letup in unrest. In November, for example, as many as 100,000 Sichuan province residents physically blocked construction of a hydroelectric dam before police could regain control...
...malnourished can be found. Poverty in rural India is breaking social bonds, driving mass migration to cities, and fueling lawlessness and violence. As Chidambaram told TIME last week: "Our villages were neglected for too long. There is deep concern in rural India?you can even use the word unrest...
...There is unrest in Middle-earth. Lord of the Rings filmmaker PETER JACKSON has sued New Line Cinema (a unit of Time Warner, TIME's parent) for breach of contract, alleging the studio mishandled home-video sales, video games and merchandising for The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment of the LOTR trilogy, which grossed nearly $3 billion. New Line declined to comment on pending litigation, but Jackson's complaint isn't the first. In 2003, 18 LOTR actors reportedly banded together and demanded better pay. (They got a bonus.) Actor Sean Astin still grumbled later that he made...
...know about the price of gasoline. But the man who runs one of the world's largest purveyors of black gold has a lot of other things on his mind too. Dave O'Reilly, CEO of ChevronTexaco, chatted with TIME correspondent Jeffrey Ressner about the environment, alternative energy, global unrest and, yes, the price...
...public relations crisis, facing criticism from all sides for his loose tongue, his rough treatment of various professors, and above all, his extremely charged feud with African American Studies star Cornel R. West ’74. Factions of the faculty were in an uproar, and in reporting the unrest, the national press painted Summers as a man who simply never learned his lesson...