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moro
noun
A member of the Muslim tribes of the southern Philippines.
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(Or was that just the Moro reflex?) I didn't linger in the hospital – but no one can wait to get out of there these days, can they?
Accommodation Finca el Moro, Fuenteheridos (fincaelmoro.com, cottages €500 per week for two people or €800 for up to six people) runs riding, yoga and walking holidays.
In April, for example, the world's first owners of revolving flats will begin moving into the Suite Vollard in Curitiba, Brazil, built by Moro Construções Civis.
They were the Christian Democrats—including Amintore Fanfani, Aldo Moro, Mariano Rumor and Giulio Andreotti, with 23 governments between them who dominated Italy's post-1945 politics until the scandals of the early 1990s toppled the old establishment.Instead, Mr Scalfaro stayed on the second rung which turned out to be the right place to be.
(Moro has sidestepped the plumbing problem: the kitchens and bathrooms are located in the building's stationary central core).
As Sciascia observes, the principle of changing everything to change nothing, which Lampedusa's prince-hero espouses in "The Leopard", could have applied perfectly to Moro.
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There are now as many Christians from the northern Philippines in Mindanao as there are indigenous Muslims.A peace agreement, signed in 1996 by the biggest rebel group, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), was supposed to appease the Moros.
Otherwise, the Philippines would now have no flag carrier.AVELINO ZAPANTAPresident and chief operating officer, PALManilaSIR The latest polls show that an overwhelming majority of Mindanaoans, both Christian and Muslim, are backing the military operations against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf ("A hostage crisis confronts Estrada", May 6th).
The bill also extended food stamps for hard-up Americans, a programme that has expanded greatly in recent years.Fighting for peaceThe government of the Philippines struck a breakthrough peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the south of the country.
Matthew Moro, the office's deputy chief, says it receives about 300 referrals a day, but has not so far come across anything that would need new regulation, just the "same old frauds in a new guise": attempts to raise money for bogus companies, for example, or schemes known variously as "scalping", "pumping and dumping" or "ramping".
Yet the world should welcome the peace plan that the government of the Philippines has agreed with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, waging an insurgency in the south of the mainly Christian country.
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