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...Mart decided to rely on Garner's local knowledge, contracting Broadway Consolidated first to demolish the old factory and then to build the 150,000-sq.-ft. superstore that will employ as many as 300 people. Garner says that the work will produce between 150 and 200 construction jobs, half of which will go to minorities. Half of those minorities will be African Americans, including black men who often have the hardest time finding jobs: ex-cons. In a city whose building trades are dogged by allegations of racism and in which the unemployment rate for black...
Later, we see Walker make a deal with a man named Yost (Keenan Wynn), who says he will provide Walker with the whereabouts of his missing wife if Walker will demolish the crime organization Reese has joined. Walker doesn’t care. All he wants is his money. Or so he says...
...expert said that if people "see Palestinians looting and destroying the settlements, and dancing on the rooftops--as they did when [Israel] left southern Lebanon--then it will be near impossible to resume negotiations on a final peace settlement." The logical solution is for the departing Israelis to demolish their settlements and clean up the rubble, rather than leave it for the Palestinians. By doing so, the Israeli government will be able to avoid scenes of celebrating Palestinian gunmen on settlement rooftops...
...Malaysian," though born in Taipei (to Malaysian-Chinese parents), raised in Kuala Lumpur, educated at Cambridge and now resident in London. "I didn't set out to incorporate any particularly Malaysian themes," Aw said from New York City, where he was on a promotional tour. "My intention was to demolish the Malaysian historical novel of the 1930s and '40s, as influenced by Somerset Maugham. You know, the idea that there are only two versions of Malaysia in literature?a place where white men sit around drinking pink gin, and a place full of colorful people doing quaint things. I wanted...
...freely elected assembly but by an unelected Convention presided by Giscard-d’Estaing. Like a rerun, it lays out already well-known principles of economic integration in the EU: severely limited powers for the directly elected European Parliament and free rein for the appointed European Commission to demolish obstacles to the competitive marketplace whatever their form. A multitude of other provisions prohibit harmonizing labor laws in the name of competition, underscoring the primacy of the unadulterated free market, while the possibility of European norms promoting social progress emerges as an afterthought, if that...