Word: milieu
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...family and make ends meet. The streets of America weren't paved with gold for Zazi. He fell deeply into debt. Starting around 2006, when he traveled to Pakistan to marry a 19-year-old cousin, Zazi began dividing his time between New York City and the increasingly radical milieu of Hayatabad, a relatively prosperous city near Peshawar where bin Laden's influence was deeply felt. Visits in 2006 and 2007 produced two children, and he hoped to bring his family to the U.S. someday. It was a dim hope, as Zazi spiraled toward bankruptcy...
...Sullivan--type variety show. "He loves every aspect of the hosting thing," says Joss Whedon, who cast Harris in his online musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. "He can be as snarky and sarcastic as anyone, but deep down, it's only love. He loves the milieu and the medium and the dumb stuff. Nobody who does magic doesn't love the dumb stuff." And no one who does magic can't put on some confidence. Harris' talent is showing you how that trick is done...
...Elsewhere, however, Wadham's obsession with what she considers universal French adultery becomes a major distraction. And similarly disappointing is her impression that the particular codes and mores of her husband's distinctly Parisian bourgeois milieu are applicable to wider French society. But, as with France itself, there's more to adore than despise in Wadham's effort...
...electoral cycle. The longer-term forces go back to the late 19th century, when industrialization threw up reformist parties of the left everywhere. Their natural clientele was a rising industrial proletariat; their natural program was the welfare state and income redistribution. But those days in Europe are gone. The milieu of such parties is evaporating, and that is why even in this economic crisis, social democratic parties are not scoring with more spending, taxes and goodies. Where is the working class in Britain, the first industrialized nation, where manufacturing contributes only 16% to GDP? Or even in Germany...
Meanwhile, the doctrine of jihad would be dulled through amendment. And the notion of a "greater jihad" - struggle within oneself toward goodness - would arise and be attributed to Muhammad himself. As in Israel after the exile, the Abrahamic God, having found himself in a multiethnic milieu rife with non-zero-sumness, underwent moral growth...