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[00:01]famine

[00:02]Still suffering from the effects of last year's drought,

[00:06]and struggling to get aid from recession-hit donors,

[00:10]Ethiopia enters another season of famine as 6.2 million

[00:14]people go hungry.

[00:17]imagine

[00:19]Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a

[00:21]few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to

[00:26]competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the

[00:29]U.S., when the Standard Oil trust was broken up.

[00:34]sardine

[00:36]Millions of London Underground passengers have had

[00:39]enough of sardine-like conditions and are adopting a "dogeat

[00:44]dog" attitude during their daily commute …

[00:48]cocaine

[00:49]The phrase "substance abuse" is often used instead

[00:52]of "drug abuse" to make clear that substances such as

[00:56]alcohol and tobacco can be just as harmfully misused as

[01:01]heroin and cocaine.

[01:04]Gasoline

[01:05]Anything seems possible as prices continue to soar.

[01:09]Gasoline might hit a dollar a gallon in the next three or

[01:13]four years, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger predicted

[01:17]last month.

[01:19]pistol

[01:20]The Social Democracy, one of the few parties that

[01:24]contested the presidential poll, said one of its electoral

[01:27]officials was forced with a pistol held to his head to sign

[01:31]off on a vote count.

[01:33]semester

[01:36]Each semester less than 1/2 of my students pass the

[01:39]class. Most of the students who fail do so because they

[01:44]fail to turn in assignments and complete tests or they put

[01:48]zero effort into the class.