Word: provinciale
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Seven years ago, Jeweler Dalila gherras did something any good Parisian would find unthinkable: she left a fine salary and stable job in the capital for distant Marseilles - where unemployment exceeded 20% and where the local disdain for relocating outsiders was legendary. Despite that dire outlook, Gherras remained convinced Marseilles...
I was immediately enchanted. I got to know that opening by heart, and for many years allowed it to play in my head when I was trying to summon up a new book, hoping that what would come to me would be as easy and direct and ironical, as visual...
Mezhennaya and her 120 colleagues do not consider themselves crusaders. "We're not all that independent," Mezhennaya says. "Fifty-one percent of our stock belongs to the city government. We know which lines we cannot cross." But the journalists still irritate the provincial notables with reports showing how the bosses...
It's possible that the opposition could still try to stir things up in the provincial cities, especially in Mindanao. Because it's such a class-based thing, with the middle and upper classes backing Arroyo while the underclass supports Estrada, there is a real fear that if the poor...
This made Japanese feel like country cousins and fed their anxiety about what others, and specifically others living nearer the centers of power, thought. There are stories about old rivalries with the Koreans, who were always a little closer to the Chinese metropole and thus, in Korean eyes, more civilized...