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...emigrate. He figured that by now he'd be wiring money back home and putting aside something for his future. But with work sporadic, and his daily wage of $47 sucked up by food and rent, he hasn't even managed to pay back the $1,560 his uncle lent him to pay the traffickers...
...wasn’t allowed to enter. Even our conversations sounded like dramatic movie fights. Once she took me into the kitchen to scold me about something and I politely excused myself in German to buzz in a friend who had come to recover the cell phone he had lent me. She turned her cold stare upon me and declared, in halting English without a hint of questioning, “Oh, you have guests...
...rest.) And with the Hoare family's seven managing partners on the hook for all of the bank's liabilities, there's nothing fancy about its approach to risk. Some 40% of C. Hoare & Co.'s deposits are turned into secured loans for its own customers. The rest is lent out to trusted banks...
...astronaut on the Planet of the Apes, he was the ultimate loner: the only member of his species in a world ruled by monkeys. Heston had caught a cold on the shoot, but director Franklin Schaffner insisted they keep filming, because the new gruffness in the star's voice lent a desperate urgency to his lines, from his first words to the simian overlords ("Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!") to his final curse of Planet Earth ("God damn you all to hell!"). Since we've established that Heston was a deity, he could as easily...
...opposition Popular Party has repeatedly attacked the governing Socialists for not doing enough to eradicate ETA. The conservative party initially lent its support to the 2006 peace process, but soon began criticizing the government's strategies. And after ETA broke the truce by blowing up a parking garage at Madrid's Barajas airport in December of 2006, killing two, the PP has sharply criticized Zapatero for continuing to "negotiate with terrorists" and lying about it to the Spanish people...