Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...siege has worked in President Pervez Musharraf's favor. Security forces have clearly done their utmost over the past week to protect the lives of civilians, offering negotiations, amnesties, cash and even alternative schooling to students who surrender. However, the drawn-out face-off has allowed anti-government sentiment to fester in militant communities throughout the country. Three incidents in the tribal areas over the weekend, in addition to a possible machine-gun attack on Musharraf's plane as he prepared to fly to the flood-ravaged province of Baluchistan on Friday, cost the lives of four police. Armed tribesmen...
None of this was any easier after 9/11 and the Iraq war, which suddenly made the hamburger a symbol of Yankee imperialism. For a while, McDonald's was shaken by the anti-American sentiment, which took the form of picketing, boycotts, vandalism and decreased sales. (However, since McDonald's in Egypt went 100% locally owned, sales have soared to nearly 10 million burgers a year at its 50 outlets.) Lucille's slowed down but with a staff of 46 Egyptians and her son Jason, a former Denny's manager, has been winning back Egyptian hearts and minds one burger...
...while Bettinger cited "turmoil" as a reason for applicant decline, it was that very same sentiment that compelled one Nieman fellow to apply in spite of any potential career apprehensions...
...parents seem to split after this: while 57 percent of parents who have children in the schools call for a review of the system, this sentiment is shared by nearly 20 percent more of the parents who have withdrawn their children. Likewise, 29 percent of current parents believe no review is necessary, while only 18 parents of withdrawn parents feel the same...
...Ethiopians at a rig in eastern Ethiopia in April. A diplomat in Nairobi warns of a "third front in the war on terror." The parallels to Iraq, which the U.S. alleged had links to al-Qaeda, only to invade and create them by sowing chaos and anti-U.S. sentiment, are plain. "America's aggression helped us a lot," explains jihadi commander Mohammed Mahmood Ali in Mogadishu. "We got a lot of support from that...