Word: vacuums
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...been especially concerned, in recent weeks, to ensure that if Israel does withdraw from Gaza, the resulting power vacuum is not filled by Hamas. But rather than weaken the movement's political authority on the streets of Gaza, the slaying of Yassin may actually have strengthened it. And that's grim news for any hope that the near-moribund Palestinian Authority could be revived in order to take charge of Gaza's security in the wake of Israel's planned departure. An estimated 200,000 people - almost one fifth of Gaza's population - reportedly turned out on the streets...
...said that this envy is most dangerous when attached to a unified doctrine “to fill the vacuum of Marx...
...leadership vacuum is the last thing South Korea needs right now. Its economy is struggling through a fitful recovery; unemployment is rising as China's booming economic expansion eats up manufacturing jobs and threatens the South's technological edge. North Korea threatens to test a nuclear weapon on its doorstep; South Korea is a key member of a group of five nations trying to persuade the North to abandon its nukes. Moreover, the impeachment intensifies uncertainty surrounding the April general election seen as crucial to restoring some credibility and stability to the South's government, which has been rocked...
...monotonous; there are rude customers," she says. Combine those factors with the 10-to 12-hour night shifts that Indian IT workers pull so they can stay in synch with U.S. daytime hours--India is 10 1/2 hours ahead of Eastern time--and "it reduces life to a vacuum," says Bhagat. "Where's the time to lead a normal existence...
Iraq's future stability depends in large part on whether the newly trained security forces can bring about peace. That will require overcoming age-old grievances that are bubbling to the surface as tribal, ethnic and religious groups jockey to fill the power vacuum left by the fallen police state. Some are taking the law into their own hands. Almost a year after the Americans arrived, newspapers still report the slayings of former Baathists, scientists and professors, as political and private scores are settled not by the gavel but by the gun. In recent weeks, attacks against police have continued...