Word: exodusing
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IVORY COAST Exodus France told its citizens to leave the Ivory Coast as stone-throwing mobs blocked the airport and stopped at least 500 French from fleeing. The call came after a deal to end the four-month-old civil war appeared to collapse. After days of rioting, protests against the French-brokered plan turned peaceful, with tens of thousands marching in the commercial capital, Abidjan. Supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo accuse France of forcing him to sign a power-sharing agreement with rebels who control the former French colony's largely Muslim north. The army condemned the deal...
...time. The 15,000 troops plus all manner of support personnel that make up the armored force are just some of the nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers now moving out from across the country to join the 60,000 already in the gulf. You can track the exodus in numbers. It's harder to track it in lives, unless you come to a place like Fort Stewart and watch a community melt away...
...train that will take him to his magical school becomes a meditation on faith. Church facilities have been updated with computer stations for video games like Bible Grand Slam and movie theaters for features like The Creation, narrated by Amy Grant. Teachers are baking unleavened bread as they read Exodus and aiming slingshots at large bottles for a hands-on study of David and Goliath. Adolescent souls are being wooed with skateboarding, surfing and hiking classes that teens attend with gear in one hand and Bible in the other. In short, churches are preaching to members of the Nickelodeon generation...
...Meanwhile, some U.S. politicians have hatched a new plan to thwart Kim: encouraging massive North Korean defections, in hopes of repeating the kind of exodus that hastened the collapse of East Germany. A refugee crisis seems to be exactly what China doesn't want. Yet Beijing last week allowed U.S. Senator Sam Brownback?a vocal critic of China's practice of sending refugees back home to face imprisonment or even execution?into the country to inspect the refugee situation along China's border with the North. Some U.S. Congressmen are calling for America to share costs for the resettlement...
...from competing in the world market. Take the luxury leather-goods industry. As recently as 1990, the sector employed 45,000 skilled craftsmen turning out hand-tooled bags and wallets. The industry now employs only 22,000 workers as companies have moved jobs to cheaper locations overseas. Joining the exodus is Goldpfeil, one of Germany's iconic leather-goods brands, which announced last week that it is laying off 70 of its 200 artisans and moving production to subcontractors in the Czech Republic and China, where labor costs are only a fifth of those in Germany. Hans...