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...coastal town is in the most troubled southern region of all: Calabria, the toe of the Italian boot, where the baleful influence of the crime syndicate 'Ndrangheta is pervasive, the infrastructure is dismal, and the unemployment rate is 13% - double the national average. Amendolara partakes of some of that woe - it's still underdeveloped and isolated - but not all of it. The mob holds no sway here, and the coastline has so far not been marred by ugly construction projects. This quiet town both defies and embodies the deepest problems of the south - and of Italy as a whole...
...Today, one thing is as important between the distinctions between left and right: the difference between policies turned towards the future, and those stuck in the past," Blair told his enthralled audience in French. "Like a rising tide, globalization can not be rejected. In a world of change, woe is he who stagnates...
Both Alcoa and Goodyear had operated well below capacity for a number of years, so it came as no surprise when they announced plans to move production to Venezuela and Mexico, respectively. Unfortunately, Collingwood's tale of economic woe is being repeated in communities across Ontario and Quebec--Canada's industrial heartland. "A high Canadian dollar is an absolute killer," says Peter Nygard, chairman of Nygard International Ltd., a manufacturer of women's clothing in Winnipeg, Man., whose $1 billion in annual revenue comes largely from...
...woe to any team that takes the Bonds bait. It's bad enough we'll have to suffer through his trial, unless he takes an unexpected plea. Do we also want to see him sitting in a San Francisco courtroom by day, and catching a charter to a game by night, a la Kobe Bryant during his 2004 rape case? (The charges against Bryant were later dismissed.) Of course not. And if that kind of spectacle drives fans crazy, imagine how it could destroy a clubhouse. Even for a dreadful team like the Devil Rays, that...
...Dad” to “friendless alcoholic divorcee,” we also meet Bethany, a fellow employee whose obsession with death has expressed itself in her Dracula-esque clothing and makeup choices.Bethany and Roger’s mutual misery condenses into a super-tornado of woe when the former begins writing messages in the latter’s journal. The two find common ground in their shared hatred of Staples (or “Shtooples,” depending on the mood of the entry), their penchant for personal loss, and their unshakable self-loathing. The journal...