Word: westernizes
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...bitterly ironic that the policies of privatization and the free-market system forced on Africa by the Western-controlled World Bank and IMF (that have devastated many African countries) are now being reversed in the U.S. Whereas poor, suffering Americans need to be protected from the full consequences of their free-market principles (which should allow AIG, GM and the rest of them to fail), Africans were afforded no such protection - presumably because they don't vote in U.S. elections. Alex Potter, CLAREMONT, SOUTH AFRICA...
...Near Jake’s house is Western Avenue, a street where Harvard has been hungrily buying up properties and displacing businesses. The once-thriving town center has vacant buildings and the occasional survivor, like the local pub. But even those still in possession of their lease have experienced a drop in business,. Harvard’s expansion has left the residents of Allston with little more than a panoply of empty storefronts and dying businesses...
...developing Somalia, rather than simply paying ransoms - a suggestion that insurance brokers reject. "It's not down to insurance companies to promote peace in Somalia," says Cooper Gay's Regester. "That is done on a governmental basis." And it is a strategy which has become increasingly urgent for Western governments...
...company dropped $3 million in cash over the Indian Ocean. "Even with the best protections in the world, you still have the risk because the pirates are very well armed and trained," says risks underwriter Bonnissent. "It is not as easy as it seems from an office in the Western world...
...trying to disarm it. Though Suleiman was respected by all sides, the political compromise that put him in office did nothing to solve the underlying issue dividing the country: should Lebanon be at the front line in the Arab and Iranian war with Israel, or should it be a Western-oriented nation, accommodated to Israel and focused on trade and tourism? (See pictures of the Mahdi Scouts, the Hizballah youth movement...