Word: evict
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Even more specifically, that means Kathy's house. Among her ignored letters are bills dunning her for back taxes on her home--the one she grew up in and loves passionately. The law appears at her door to evict her, and she spends the rest of this sad, curiously moving film fighting the county and fighting the colonel, who acquires her house, at less than its worth, by paying off the old taxes...
...Sacco gives us the history of these morally ambiguous warlords who he describes as "military pop idols." While defending the city they confiscate storehouses, evict Muslims from their homes, conscript citizens by gunpoint and are eventually implicated in massacres and "ethnic cleansing." Neven adds his own story to these, like the time he shot an enemy through his gun holster while falling backwards. Or did he? Sacco parallels his increasing doubts about the authenticity of Neven's tales while getting deeper into the warlord's atrocities. By the end, "The Fixer" becomes as much about the haziness and relative importance...
...Scripture, is actually a modern coinage to refer to a theater of operations for the Islamist insurgency. There are many: the U.S. and Europe have emerged as central fields of jihad, along with Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Kashmir, Indonesia and others. The extremists will fight and die to evict "infidel" forces from those places, including any Muslim government they consider apostate...
...third series draws contestants from a dozen African countries. Because of massive population differences among countries, a one-viewer, one-vote policy for the show, which will run 106 days and offers $100,000 to the winner, was considered unfair. Instead, each country gets just one vote to evict a contestant; the majority of viewers in each country is taken as the vote for that country. Viewers in countries without a contestant combine to become a 13th vote. The multinational approach has created headaches for the show's producers. Last week viewers in more conservative countries such as Malawi complained...
...just unacceptable to evict students in order to make space for other students,” Schmitt says...