Word: evenness
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Such divisions can only harm the prospects for peace. Even more depressingly, the one thing on which Anthony and Okah seem to agree is that the future looks grim. In an interview with TIME this month, Anthony said he was "quite pessimistic" about the chances of forging a lasting peace because of the deteriorating health of the President - "I am categorically saying that [his] death may mean the death of Nigeria" - and because until the government tackles corruption, a peaceful and prosperous Nigeria will have to wait. "Unless the entire system is overhauled," he said, "we are going nowhere...
...Since a similar problem in 2002 was resolved by "winterizing" the locomotives so that snow couldn't get into the engine blocks, Eurostar officials were guardedly optimistic that the same method would fix the problem this time. However, even if the trains do start running again, anger over the fiasco won't melt as quickly as the thinning French snow. (See the worst business deals...
...running Friday night, with still more marooned in Brussels. That's a lot of people to move during the holiday travel season when seats on trains, planes, buses and ferries are already difficult to come by. The problem will only get worse if service remains suspended this week, stranding even more of Eurostar's 24,000 daily users. The company says it will reimburse customers for their unused tickets and other "reasonable expenses" incurred, but it won't be able to transport all of the people who are waiting to cross the channel over the next few days. Little wonder...
...their holiday plans. And these are the lucky ones. Many of the more than 2,000 people who were trapped for hours in the dark Channel Tunnel on Friday night complained that virtually nothing had been done to care for them or inform them of developments during their ordeal - even as some individuals suffered attacks of asthma and claustrophobia. (See pictures of Paris expanding...
...blood - and even worse publicity - is certainly the Christmas gift from hell for Eurostar. And the beneficiaries may be the beleaguered airline industry. Can the airlines take advantage of the anger to reclaim part of the England-France market share they've lost to the train service over the years? Five years ago, Eurostar accounted for just 45% of the travel between the countries; now, the figure stands...