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Could anyone please tell me, why the hell the people selling chicken wings happen to be that crazy?
It seems fair to say that the title "Falling Angels" is plural so as to include not only the baby brother who somehow fell over Niagara Falls and whose picture is later given wings and enshrined behind wood paneling in the Field family's basement.
The army leadership ordered elections, permitted the formation of a civilian government, and then stage-managed the political process from the wings.
The Green Economy is not a luxury, but a clear imperative on a planet of six billion people – and nine billion by 2050.The financial and economic crisis has given it wings.
Measures to improve the welfare of laying hens, which are typically kept crammed into bare wire cages with no room to stretch their wings, are also being phased in.
Many more aspirants are waiting in the wings, and would likely be encouraged by a Scottish “Yes” vote.
Reform in Saudi Arabia is in every sense a bizarre compromise between the opposing forces of the al-Saud’s prominent wings and the forces of the official Wahhabi religious establishment.
Standing in the wings is one possible candidate who might take up where Khatami left off and address the economic and cultural concerns of young Iranians.
Many generations of selection in a particular direction – say, for moving efficiently through the air – can give rise to complicated structures like wings and the coordinated processes of flying.
For almost three decades, first as a city councilor and then as a congressman, Bolsonaro waited in the wings for precisely this moment.
Among the activist community in Jakarta, the most successful organizations are those that draw support from the women’s wings of Muhammadiyah and NU: Muslimat, Fatayat, and Aisyiyah.
And what other economic giants are waiting in the wings?
Hillary Clinton, trying to straddle the divide between the two wings of the Democratic Party, is increasingly leaning to the left as Sanders draws enormous crowds, something she has yet to accomplish.
Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad are highly disciplined organizations, exercising tight control over their political and military wings.
The “Arab awakening” is about homegrown democratic change; it is therefore a repudiation of both US complicity with local autocrats and the American paradigm, so evident in Iraq, of “democracy” imported on the wings of F-16s.
Macron’s movement, too, had right and left wings.
Legislation such as the US Glass-Steagall Act clipped their wings.
Instead, he seems drawn to authoritarian leaders – in particular, Russian President Vladimir Putin – and often leaves democratic leaders watching from the wings.
And now it is seen as a major testing ground for Sino-American rivalry, with China stretching its new wings, and the United States trying to clip them enough to maintain its own regional and global primacy.
As a result, older voters will demand more and more socioeconomic security, and irresponsible populists will be waiting in the wings to accommodate them.
Meanwhile, corporate secrecy has placed ExxonMobil in the crosshairs of the attorneys general of New York, Massachusetts, and the Virgin Islands, and many more states are waiting in the wings.
Perhaps if both wings had united, that single party would have appeared as an unbeatable juggernaut.
But many members of Congress represent districts that are safe for their parties, and the threat to their re-election comes in party primaries that are dominated by the more activist and extreme wings of the parties.
Or is there another Keynes in the wings somewhere?
Animal-welfare advocates protest that crowding the chickens keeps them from forming a natural flock, causes them stress, and, in the case of laying hens, prevents them from even stretching their wings.
Consider the recent challenges faced by Bombardier, a Canadian multinational that produces 100-150-seat passenger jets using globally sourced parts, including wings made by Bombardier UK, the largest manufacturing employer in Northern Ireland.
According to this approach, energy cooperation should form the core of collaboration, while infrastructure construction and trade and investment form two wings.
When the British, who elevated the strategy of “divide and rule” into an art, decided to establish two separate wings of Pakistan on either side of a partitioned India, the Rohingya began attempting to drive Buddhists out of the Muslim-dominated Mayu peninsula in northern Rakhine.
Some 2,500 years ago, Sappho of Lesbos wrote:Their heart grew coldthey let their wings downTo prevent that from happening to humanists across Europe, we need a new movement to campaign for refugees’ release from odious conditions and a swift asylum process.
With Gaza still smoldering, yet another burning question is waiting in the wings.
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