Word: foreigners
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...Furthermore, foreign occupiers wear out their welcome quickly in Afghanistan. Ask the Russians. Recall that the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 seeking to protect a threatened client regime, but an armed resistance quickly rose up calling itself the mujahideen. One outsider who aided this resistance force was a wealthy Saudi named Osama bin Laden. Our CIA supported the mujahideen as well. Russian troop strength was eventually increased up to 108,000, and vigorous offensive actions were launched in the countryside, but control could never be established. The effort became a moral and political calamity. Over a decade 13,000 Soviet...
...situation isn't unique to Jaén, or even to Spain. Across Europe until recently, foreign laborers were the backbone of industries such as construction and hospitality. But as the economy has stuttered, unemployment among migrants has risen - by 67% over the past year in Spain. So grim has the outlook become that the Spanish government has initiated a program that essentially pays out-of-work migrants to go home. "It's not that anyone has anything against the migrants," says Bódalo. "But if you're an olive farmer and your cousin or your neighbor comes...
...marathon session of talks. By late in the day, it seemed like they might be amenable to a plan that would involve the automakers slashing their debt by March 31 and forcing the United Autoworkers Union to accept wage cuts that would put them on par with employees of foreign automakers, which operate plants in the U.S. "We were three words - three words - away from a deal. We offered any date in the year 2009 - any date," Corker said...
...montage of clipped, obscured, and often beautiful passages ranging in focus from anonymous people in transit to flowers and vegetation. More frequently than not, it was unclear exactly what the objects were—whether because the shot was too tight, too dark, or simply with too foreign a subject—leaving the viewer with little more than free-associative and mnemonic inference. But this is all part of Dorsky’s vision. “The whole idea is to set up tension that you as the viewer synapse the completion of,” Dorsky says...
Hollywood Foreign Press Association •Golden Globe Award nominees are selected by 83 members...