Word: countrymen
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...there is one characteristic that distinguishes Poles, whether they are wielding a wrench or a stethoscope, it's a capacity for work--at least, that's what many employers say. Jarek Czernek, the general manager of Aluglass Ireland, a business that installs glass siding, says the 100 fellow countrymen he employs "are work oriented. They want to work a lot. They will work whenever you ask them...
...know the revolutionaries - there's a sweetly tentative romance between Damien and a woman named Sinead (Orla Fitzgerald) that is the more touching because it so gently stated - and we like them in part because they are reluctant warriors, particularly when they must dispense with their own countrymen, who lack their righteous fervor. Yet we also cannot escape the feeling that some of their murderousness is meaningless - as terrorism so often...
...exclusively on the physical reconstruction of this country, we didn't pay enough attention to people's mental states. People's irrational fears helped trigger the crisis last year, but we didn't understand it well enough to take it seriously." For his part, Ramos-Horta is urging his countrymen to look ahead, speaking glowingly of the country's economic potential. Revenues from offshore oil and gas reserves increased nearly ninefold to $351 million from the 2003-04 fiscal year to the 2005-06 fiscal year. The reserves, which are located between East Timor and Australia, are to be developed...
...withdrawal of the arms of Hizballah is something that has to be done through negotiation and not through force. These are our countrymen. These people at one time were fighting for the liberation of the occupied territory. They fought bravely defending Lebanon last July and August. I bow my head for their sacrifices. We have to arrange for the liberation [of Shebaa Farms]. They have to understand at the end of the day that no country can continue if there is no real central state and the weapons are the monopoly of the state. We have grievances and we have...
...dangerous - just subversively funny. A few jokes into his routine, Hanania, 53, a U.S. citizen raised in Chicago, is making his Jewish audience laugh at themselves and at the luckless, ordinary Arabs living in the U.S. after 9/11 who are often branded as terrorists by their countrymen...