Word: closing
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This morning he has prospective snowbirds from Spain, Ontario ("We just can't ignore these prices"), Boston and Mingo Junction, Ohio, where another steel mill is about to close. "Opportunity is banging at your door," Joseph tells them, and he'd sound like any cheesy salesman if he weren't so attached to this place and so angry at what was done to it; it's as if his house had been burned down by reckless kids playing with matches and he's building it back up again board by board. It's gotten so bad that the courts have...
...student was willing to take up Kennedy's challenge. "It's my responsibility to my country to teach people about the elections," he said. "People say they are stupid, but we have nothing else to look forward to." I watched as the English-speaking waiter loitering a little too close to our table grinned. But it wasn't the smirk of a government informant. It was a smile, I think, of hope...
...That position alone, analysts say, makes it unthinkable that Chang is anything other than a hard-liner. He climbed the ranks of the ruling party much more quickly than most; more than a decade ago, he began to join Kim on visits to vital military units, where he established close ties to senior commanders. Soon, Kim was sending him on key trips abroad...
...following among the North's élite. In Kim's eyes, they became too popular. In 2004, Chang was accused of "fostering factions" and placed under house arrest. "Kim became jealous," says Yang Moo Jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. But Kim remained close to his sister, and analysts believe that she played a critical role in getting her husband rehabilitated. In early 2006, Chang appeared at a New Year's party alongside Kim, a signal that all had been forgiven...
...narrated through an unusual set of eyes—those of a teenage boy. Rodoreda’s narrator is a remarkably dispassionate protagonist, remarking in turns on the macabre and the surreal with unflinching ambivalence.Comparison is impossible to resist, as Rodoreda chooses to pitch her tent so deliberately close to that of other writers. The allegory of Rodoreda’s novel is glaringly reminiscent of its more renowned contemporary, J.M. Coetzee’s “Waiting for the Barbarians.” Whereas Coetzee uses myth to provide an account of nobility in the midst...