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The wrenching loss of manufacturing jobs (the source of low-skill jobs at decent wages) and the flight of the white middle class to the suburbs began before the riots.
The book, Said's 17 th , is a wrenching, intimate account of growing up in Cairo's wealthy Levantine expatriate community, of summering in the dreary Lebanese resort town of Dhour el Shweir, and of visiting the family home in Jerusalem, sometimes for as long as several months.
The Post , however, reserved its main praise for Protestant leader Trimble, who, it said, "in wrenching concessions from the intransigent unionists of Northern Ireland, and carrying them through the peace process despite mounting unionist militancy and suspicions of a sell-out to Irish republicanism, pulled off a miracle of biblical proportions."
It is “a way of wrenching back some wordpower,” and in a way not “a-mazing” (a typical Daly twirl of language to make the reader re-examine words) to our “fore-sisters who/were the Great Hags,” terms used in unconventional ways.
But nor do I think some wrenching social and economic difficulties in a still-nascent constitutional democracy are comparable to forced starvations, reigns of terror, and the Gulag.