Word: friendless
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...These tantalizing riches risk falling into the same chasm, however, as the unpaid billions owed to Russia by Saddam Hussein's regime, and other Moscow-backed rogue regimes. Russia risks ending up unpaid, friendless - and facing a volatile nuclear neighbor, connected to terrorist groups and armed with Russian weapons, right on her unstable southern border. Some return to glory, indeed...
...business not to act his age--but we have to wonder why, when the picture is set in Seattle, where it rains often, this detail-oriented guy never seems to remember his raincoat or umbrella. Then there's the matter of the family. What has rendered them so friendless? Only once does someone call to inquire why they haven't been around. The mailman doesn't appear. No one drops by to ask the kids to play. And then there's the robbers: a bunch of psychos who invade a home but pose no sexual menace to their female captives...
...Friendless Freshman...
This allows Ronzone to tack on what he calls "a random country," a Kazakhstan or a Congo, to the end of each journey. When he arrives--friendless and unannounced--his strategy for expanding his network frequently consists of walking up to people, saying hello and starting to talk about basketball in his train-wreck sentences. More often than not, they talk back. In Kazakhstan, a conversation with a hotel bellman led to the discovery of three raw but promising players at a club team. "Tony talks a lot, and that gets him into these places," says the Pistons' Hammond...
...straightforward film. She's almost caught by customs officers in New York City. Her friend Lucy (Guilied Lopez) sickens and dies when heroin poisons her. Another friend, Blanca (Yenny Paola Vega), turns out to be at once rebellious and dependent when she and Maria are stranded, broke and friendless, on the New York streets. Yet somehow Maria prevails...