Word: shifts
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...with an assortment of Green Zone archetypes: broad-shouldered security contractors walk in with dates in tight tops and high heels; a handful of diplomats mingle in blazers; a construction worker wearing a fishing vest that reads BAGHDADDY meets his friends at the end of a 12-hour shift. The guards at the gate require that patrons surrender their guns, ammunition, grenades and flash bangs before entering. You get your weapons back at the end of the night...
...table in the bar, Manikas is describing his daily routine. He wakes up at 4 a.m. in the company's villa down the street, has coffee, eats breakfast and is on a bus at 6, headed for the new embassy. After his shift he comes back, and if there has been a big bombing in Baghdad that day, he calls home. "Every time the media shows something on TV," he says, "I have to call my wife and say it wasn't near me." He feels safe in the Green Zone. "It is written in my karma where...
...them ten years later, the guy’s making a gazillion and the woman is in a small practice making maybe 60 percent as much,” Goldin says.“Why is that the case? Most likely, she made a conscious decision to shift into a smaller practice that didn’t have 80-hour work weeks to combine family with career and to do it in a way that was satisfying. Now, why not her husband?”Questions such as these have long fascinated Goldin as she has studied the factors leading...
...reporters outside the Straight Talk Express was thick and vaguely hostile, tossing repeated questions about the few paragraphs in the speech that mentioned the war. In what might be the single most depressing understatement of the year, McCain noted it "has not gone well." But anyone expecting a shift in policy was disappointed. Rather, he reiterated the points that he had previewed to Jon Stewart the night before - that we made mistakes getting into the war, that we shouldn't make the same mistakes again and well, there was a certain lacuna in his remarks...
...selection removes a key institutional check on his party's agenda, which is likely to increase friction with the military. The choice also represents a broader shift in political power away from the secularist elite in Turkey's coastal cities and towards the conservative Islamic heartland. Gul himself hails from Central Anatolia, the Turkish equivalent of America's Bible Belt. His party's ascendance over the past five years poses a clear challenge not only to the military, but to Turkey's old secular establishment. It's a challenge based on a democratic mandate from the electorate...