• Based on the svelte lines of Caribbean workboats, and available in a bouquet of vibrant colors, Caribianas are eye-grabbers.

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  • The Amazon, Brazil is learning, is both a resource and weak spot, vulnerable to guerrillas, drug traffickers and land-grabbers.

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  • How, then, can incumbent politicians vote against it without appearing as self-interested money-grabbers?

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  • Producers are resorting not only to screwcaps but to more gimmicky attention grabbers, like opaque colored bottles, or no bottles whatsoever.

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  • The city of 18m is beset by land-grabbers and narco-warlords and by sectarian, ethnic and political feuding, or all three combined.

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  • On Monday, a senior MQM leader blamed the violence on gangs of extortionists and land grabbers who had taken the city hostage.

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  • Unowned forests are unprotected, which is why the grileiros, or land-grabbers, of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest can so easily turn it to pasture.

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  • To kill these two resource-grabbers, hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, select (one at a time) Findfast and OSA from the list, and then click the End Task button.

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  • It is not only besmirched by the Shia killings, but also by a vicious, multi-sided turf war between ethnic and sectarian groups, mafias and land grabbers.

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  • The murder earlier this year by hired gunmen of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who challenged the loggers and land grabbers, shows how ruthless the forest's enemies can be.

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  • Among the attention-grabbers so far?

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  • When Gaita Baikiao finished his doctorate in 1977 at Universitas Urbaniana in Rome, having studied social anthropology among other studies, he came back to Kenya and found that Njurinceke was dying, and the meeting spaces reserved for the elders were about to be alienated by land-grabbers because the organisation had no certificate of registration.

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