The magnificent buildings of antiquity fell into disrepair, or were pillaged for their contents.

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Ekwoge Enang Abwe runs a project to try to safeguard the creatures of the Ebo Forest: the gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys that are pillaged for bushmeat.

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The Ottoman powers in Athens cared nothing for the ruins of Greek antiquity, and had already pillaged them for building stone or bricked them up for gun-placements.

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But, if austerity means simply holding the wage levels of the public sector down while public sector debt is diluted by inflation, as savers and the private sector are pillaged, then the doomsayers will be proved correct.

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Pillaged profit models are only one bugbear.

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Myhrvold is of Nordic extraction, and he looks every bit the bearded, fair-haired Viking not so much the tall, ferocious kind who raped and pillaged as the impish, roly-poly kind who stayed home by the fjords trying to turn lead into gold.

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