Word: ejection
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...This isn't the first time that the authorities in relatively prosperous Malaysia have conducted campaigns to eject illegal workers, who typically fill menial jobs in industries like construction. But the scale and severity of the current crackdown is unprecedented. Scores of illegal immigrants have been arrested; some have been sentenced to caning and lengthy prison terms. The harsh treatment has ignited a political and diplomatic firestorm. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo phoned Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to make a personal appeal for a moratorium on deportations of Filipinos. Amien Rais, speaker of the Indonesian Parliament, warned that Malaysia...
...anathema to peace is pretty much the same view as the Palestinians and even Israel?s Arab peace partner Egypt has of the Israeli prime minister. But the fact that Sharon is discussing the prospect of relocating Arafat suggests he may be preparing the ground for a move to eject the Palestinian leader, despite Washington?s opposition...
...Chemistry Guide: "A nice gesture to conclude the date would be for the guy to simply offer to send the lady home." The Foreign Media Guide: "If reporters refuse to leave, Public Security officers can use force to eject them...
...once, we don't have to hold that against a director. Moore can quick-cut with anyone, and he uses that skill intelligently (as in the scene where the F/A-18 pilots eject). But his most memorable work is of a more sweeping sort. He uses a high camera gracefully, swirlingly, to isolate Burnett in the stark and unforgiving mountains. He can also get down on the ground, in low angles, to track Burnett's flight across flatter terrain while still stressing the man's lonely desperation. It's too much to say that Moore's work constitutes a reinvention...
...Moreover, taking down the PA would require that Israel resume direct control over areas currently governed by Arafat. And the Israelis would be dealing then with hard-liners favoring a long-term low-intensity war to eject Israel from the West Bank and Gaza. Israel's generals know full well that one of the advantages of Oslo was that it made the occupation easier, by removing their troops from the towns and cities of the West Bank and Gaza where they were far more vulnerable to Palestinian attack. Reoccupying territory ceded to Arafat may prove more of a nightmare than...