Word: drift
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...inner city, darkness often brings fear as Iraqi security forces come and go, leaving some Marines wondering whether they are among friends or enemies. In Ghazaliya, a violent neighborhood in western Baghdad with similar combat outposts, nearby gunfire cracks through the inky blackness outside seemingly every time you drift off. And in Diyala Province, where nine U.S. soldiers died Monday, troops stand watch on rooftops overlooking stretches of palm groves where they know insurgents dwell, waiting for the right moment to strike...
Risaliti—who is also a visiting astrophysicist at the CFA—and his colleagues decided to delve deeper into the periodic eclipses of the NGC 1365 quasar’s emissions. Such eclipses are caused by clouds of gas that drift around the black hole, occasionally blocking X-ray radiation from reaching the earth...
...goods this term. But after that? If the study is correct, don't bet on it. A lot surely depends on Justice Kennedy. If he remains steady in his opposition to affirmative action, for example, that will mean the policy is in trouble. Not so if he renews his drift to the left...
...drift of rural families into cities in search of better jobs and improved living conditions is part of a global trend, but in Fiji the country's land-ownership policies have exacerbated the problem. Laws passed in the 1970s obliged non-indigenous farmers to take 30-year leases on the land they worked. As the leases expired, the Government encouraged indigenous Fijian landowners not to renew them, but instead to farm the land themselves. The non-indigenous farmers were given cash payouts to leave, but their workers received nothing...
...persisted into our own times and Loach's film is permeated with an unspoken acknowledgment of that fact. Nor can we ignore that other insurgencies, engendered largely by the stupidity and arrogance of imperialist powers, are everywhere present in our own world - though, again, Loach allows our thoughts to drift in that direction without guidance from him. Loach may not be a sockeroo filmmaker - I think he is a sufficient one in his slightly stodgy way - but he is manifestly a good and thoughtful man and The Wind That Shakes the Barley represents his gifts at something like their best...