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...financial penalties. Obviously, the idea that the E.U.'s poorest country could be fined - on top of huge spending cutbacks the government must make - has not gone down well among Portugal's citizens. Charged by member states with enforcing the Stability and Growth Pact guidelines, the Commission bears the brunt of Portuguese discontent...
SPRIGGS: The other dimension is that growing inequality has made it possible to have what appears to be a recovery because the brunt of unemployment falls on low-income families. You can still have consumption going because those at the bottom aren't contributing much in consumption anyway...
...well at this collision of concrete and Mother Nature. “They eat the berries and decide to poop on the cars!” laughs April Tavares, a Harvard Parking Office employee. But for the car owners whose paint jobs were bearing the brunt of these aerial bombardments, this was no laughing matter. At $450 for a spot for one year, car owners paid for convenience, not corrosion from the surprisingly acidic starling droppings. The parking lot’s users decided to take action and filed a complaint with the Parking Office this past winter. Enough...
...moment in the war. Before Christmas, in the ridges and caves of Tora Bora, the Americans had let their Afghan proxies do most of the fighting on the ground. As a result, hundreds--perhaps thousands--of al-Qaeda fighters escaped to fight another day. In Shah-i-Kot the brunt of the dirty work has been borne by Americans. After a week of fighting, a military source estimated that 800 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters had been killed. Total confirmed casualties on the allied side: 11 dead, of whom eight were American and three Afghan, and 88 wounded...
...moment in the war. Before Christmas, in the ridges and caves of Tora Bora, the Americans had let their Afghan proxies do most of the fighting on the ground. As a result, hundreds?perhaps thousands?of al-Qaeda fighters escaped to fight another day. In Shah-i-Kot the brunt of the dirty work has been borne by Americans. After a week of fighting, a military source estimated that 800 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters had been killed. Total confirmed casualties on the allied side: 11 dead, of whom eight were American and three Afghan, and 88 wounded...