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  • 21Global Handwashing Day — is a campaign to motivate and mobilize millions around the world to wash their hands with soap [ en [http://www.unicef.ie/news208.htm UNICEF and partners announce Global Handwashing Day 2008] ] , the campaign is dedicated to raising awareness of… …

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  • 22FRANCE'S NEW AFRICAN POLICY — ▪ 1998 by David Buchan During 1997 a gradual sea change in France s policy toward Africa reached its culmination. Gone or going was France s paternalism toward French speaking Africa, its tendency to want to keep others out of its African pré… …

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  • 23hamper — vb Hamper, trammel, clog, fetter, shackle, manacle, hog tie are comparable when meaning to hinder or impede one so that one cannot move, progress, or act freely. To hamper is to encumber or embarrass by or as if by an impediment or restraining… …

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  • 24realize — 1 Realize, actualize, embody, incarnate, materialize, externalize, objectify, hypostatize, reify are the chief words in English meaning to give concrete or objective existence to something that has existed as an abstraction or a conception or a… …

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  • 25inveterate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. habitual, hardened; fixed, set. See habit, resolution. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ingrained, confirmed, deep rooted; see chronic , habitual 1 , permanent 2 . See Synonym Study at chronic . III… …

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  • 26habitual — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Of the nature of a habit] Syn. ingrained, confirmed, frequent, periodic, continual, routine, mechanical, automatic, perfunctory, seasoned, iterated, permanent, perpetual, on going, consuetudinary, consuetudinal, fixed,… …

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  • 27Instinct — • The term usually includes the idea of a purposive adaptation of an action or series of actions in an organized being, not governed by consciousness of the end to be attained Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Instinct     Instinc …

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  • 28United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …

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  • 29habitual — ha·bit·u·al /hə bi chə wəl/ adj 1: practicing or acting in some manner by force of custom, habit, or addiction a habitual drunkard 2: being such a specified number of times or with designated regularity habitual offenders 3: involved in the… …

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  • 30confirmed — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Firmly established] Syn. proved, valid, accepted; see certain 3 , established 3 , guaranteed . 2. [Inveterate] Syn. ingrained, seasoned, regular; see chronic , habitual 1 . See Synonym Study at chronic . II (Roget s 3… …

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