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...ambiguities. I was in villages where villagers were killed and abused. It came from anger, fear. There were rapes, beatings and murders. I heard stories from people I was close to. You're in a hot fire zone. A villager comes up from behind, let's say, a sand dune. He's surrendering, but sometimes a guy would just pull a trigger and blow him away...
That bleating camel sometimes known as the U.S. economy kicked a little sand on the resurgent markets Thursday, when the Labor Department reported that weekly jobless claims had notched up again, to 421,000, putting the rolling four-week average at more than 400,000. That's arguably a more recent snapshot of the employment scene than Friday's unemployment figure for April, but it's that number which, judging by volume, the traders had been really waiting on. That number ticked up too, to 4.5 percent for the month...
...Godzilla movies, atomic blasts awaken a prehistoric monster (and he still hasn't gone back to sleep; the series continues today). There were also more serious parables of doomed romance, in which an unlikely couple represents the puniness of mankind in the smirking face of Armageddon. The glistening sand on the skin of the lovers in Hiroshima mon amour and Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes are a kind of atomic glaze - an artistic rendering of the nuclear dusting of those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the American bombings...
...POST Low-profile backwater with little work but lots of sun, sand and surf...
...sand was now running through the hourglass. With the economy turning down in the summer and revenues falling, firms had to dig deeper and deeper into their pockets to service their IOUs. By winter, four times as many companies had their credit rating downgraded as had it upgraded, the worst such ratio since 1990, according to Moody's Investor Services...