Word: woes
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...Harvest of Woe I must congratulate you for offering a balanced report on farmer suicides in Vidarbha [May 28]. It brings into sharp focus the perils of modern-day living for those whose incomes are still negligible, and spells out clearly the efforts being made by the government to avert the agrarian crisis. [However], unlike what the article implies, the disbursal of credit is not an issue of great concern. In the past year, government efforts have doubled credit availability in the six affected districts of Vidarbha while minimizing unauthorized, predatory moneylending in the area. Moreover, the article gives...
...Donnell won't return to The View. "I didn't really fit into the family, and now it's time for the foster kid to go back home," she said on ROSIE.COM, prompting friend Nora Ephron to write on THE HUFFINGTON POST, "I feel sad/ And full of woe/ I am going to miss/ My Ro." SCORE...
...daughter, so Serena felt free to pursue some outside interests, like acting (she appeared in an ER episode). Plus, a nagging knee injury stripped some motivation. "Serena is definitely the baby in our family," says Williams' sister Isha of her youngest sib. "She has a little of that 'Woe is me' going on. Like, 'Oh, my God, why am I always injured? Why is the press picking...
...USAGE Woe is GW0T? At a recent debate, Brian Williams asked the eight Democratic presidential candidates to raise their hands if there "is such thing as a global war on terror." Clinton and Obama raised their hands. John Edwards was among those who did not. "This political language has created a frame that is not accurate and that Bush and his gang have used to justify anything they want to do," Edwards tells TIME. The White House, for its part, insists President Bush isn't changing his policy--or his vocabulary...
...Woe is the Republic: As one valiant voice cried out to Obama, “I don’t want money to pick my next president. I want to pick my president.” But for all this hand-wringing—instinctive aversion to filthy lucre—campaign finance reform is quixotic and probably unnecessary. The only way to actually take money out of politics is to take power out of Washington: If there is less government power to buy, people will spend less money trying...