MAHATHIR MOHAMAD likes nothing better than to blame wicked foreigners for the woes they have afflicted on South-East Asia's financial markets in recent months.
It even predicted the failure of drug policy that has afflicted the nation since President Nixon declared a "war on drugs" in 1971.
On the 6th, the outbreak of influenza that has afflicted millions of the region's birds claimed its 50th human victim, a young girl in Vietnam.
ANYONE who enjoys fine dining but deplores the price escalation that has afflicted the better restaurants in Fairfield County has only to go to 707 on Main in Monroe.
It has afflicted Middlesbrough players too.
She added: "Westernisation has afflicted our cities the worst.
The historic drought has afflicted Californians in many different ways.
Outside the hall and around the tables, dozens of Hollywood luminaries fought to avoid the sort of neglect that had afflicted some on the stage.
The strikes, stoppages and suicides that have afflicted foreign factories on China's coast in recent months have shaken the popular image of the country's workers as docile, diligent and dirt cheap.
Such strains in British politics are nothing new, and deep divisions over Europe have afflicted the Conservative Party on and off for a quarter of a century, contributing to the downfall of the party's two last prime ministers.
