Chad oil pipeline.See "World Bank Approves Controversial Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline Project," Sept/Oct 2000, p. 34; "Chad/Cameroon Oil Pipeline Moving Forward," July/Aug 2000, p. 10; and "Chad Purchases Weapons With Oil Pipelines Money," March/April 2001, p. 29 So it has come to this--the saga of a pipeline originally intended to bring welcome revenue and development to an impoverished country, but which instead has brought corruption, exploitation, and disease. A headline in the March 13, 2004 Washington Post reads: "Oil Wealth Trickles Into Chad, but Little Trickles Down." The accompanying article describes the thousands of illegal immigrants illegal immigrant n. an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa. (See: alien) and jobless job·less adj. 1. Having no job. 2. Of or relating to those who have no jobs. n. (used with a pl. verb) Unemployed people considered as a group. Used with the. men who have been drawn to the area--which is now a hotbed hotbed, low, glass-covered frame structure for starting tender plants. It differs from a cold frame only in that the soil is heated—either artificially as by underground electric wiring or steampipes, or naturally with partially fermented stable manure, which of prostitution prostitution, act of granting sexual access for payment. Although most commonly conducted by females for males, it may be performed by females or males for either females or males. and AIDS. |
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