Word: felted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sagra, they first felt the pinch months ago. "Construction started to really slow in February or March, with the subprime crisis in the U.S.," says Duque, "and that's when the brick warehouses started to fill up." Many brick works in the area closed over summer, but things have hardly improved since then. Duque says most of the brick companies in La Sagra have suspended workers temporarily in a program that allows them to receive unemployment benefits for three months and then return to a guaranteed job. With the financial meltdown adding to Spain's troubles and the country...
...like the government’s handling of Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Hurricane Katrina have hurt the country’s reputation.On the topic of economic inequality, the former Treasury Secretary cited the importance of both creating prosperity and spreading its benefits.“People who once felt security in heir communities, their livelihoods, their nation, and the world no longer feel secure,” Summers said. “They think that their economic security is hanging by a thread, and they’re not sure what the new global system is going...
...said that the cello concerto conveys the anguish Yun felt when he was tortured in a South Korean prison and exiled from his homeland...
Before this summer, my personal grooming consisted of, you know, soap. I felt a deep mistrust towards anyone who would shell out twenty bucks to have someone else clean their feet...
...felt guilty sitting there and acting as if I took this personal foot care for granted. But without any Hindi, my conversational efforts were limited to, “You have big family? Ah, very good, very good!” He was running a pointy stick around my nails. All of this seemed very complicated...