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...Such fears are now being compounded by the spectre of a second Donald Trump presidency — and a new era of American isolationism that could presage....
...“Leakage”, or what one American waste campaigner calls a “classic British understatement — an all-too polite term for what is most often a criminal activity”, involves all sorts of actors stealing goods...
...AP’s advance guard, an American conservationist named Mike Fay and David Simpson, a Yorkshire farmer’s son who had previously saved the Central African Republic’s Chinko reserve, arrived last autumn....
...They didn’t give a toss what the UK rags made of them and there were always enough Americans to keep them afloat. It was a mutually agreeable deal....
...Soon, the menacing snarl of police choppers grows loud, then deafening, and wind machines mounted in the ceiling simulate the downdraft of their whirring blades. The effect is almost panic-inducing....
...Occasionally the traffickers succeed in shooting down the choppers. “We have militarised police and armed drug traffickers and a scenario of urban war....
...(All from the back of a brilliantly painted motorbike, a real old-school chopper.)...
...Turkey’s pro-government press decried Mr Borrell’s chopper ride as an “ugly provocation”. Yet Ankara itself is also being accused of behaving in a provocative way....
...“You hear stories about the weddings and the choppers and whatnot but, in person, he doesn’t come across as someone who is suffering from megalomania....
...The US leader has repeatedly criticised the cost of hosting American troops in South Korea and said in June he wanted to eventually withdraw the US presence from the peninsula....
...But, given that military tensions in the Pacific are growing as trade-based antagonism deepens, he concludes that the “realist” assessment of Sino-American relations is the one most likely to be vindicated...
...On the downside, a snowcat’s top speed is tortoise-like in comparison with a chopper, so the descents tend to be shorter, to mitigate the slower journey back up....
...Letter in response to this article: Hamptons choppers are driving the rest of us crazy / From Charles Bank...
...It goes with the men in white suits, the ladies with deep décolletage and the chopper bicycles that school kids leave unlocked on the kerb....
...Such was the background to the recent sale of the leading domaine of Pernand-Vergelesses, Bonneau de Martray, to the American owner of Arsenal FC, Stan Kroenke....
...Like the pioneers with their sense of American exceptionalism, there’s a messianic fervour to California’s remaking of the world....
...The 19th century newspaper editor Horace Greeley urged young Americans to “Go West” to the unsettled frontier....
...So at around 1.30pm we strapped his stretcher to the runners of a chopper, and that was the last time I saw him. The man who shot Che, NCO Mario Terán, later told me what had happened....
...But their fate has been the fate of all native Americans, from here to the Arctic Circle....
...“We’ll be importing cheap American shale gas before we’re fracking on large scale in UK,” he said....
...European insurers such as Axa, Aviva and Allianz, along with MassMutual and American Family in the US and Ping An in Asia have all set up specialist venture capital funds....
...The clichéd view of the show as being all about men waving their choppers around, as the axe dance in the “Harvest Social” sequence suggests, is far too reductive....
...By trialling blades at home, they defined three basic types: the paring knife (Petty), chef’s knife (Santoku) and chopper (Nakiri)....
...But after those choppers climbed into the Saigon sky, Americans of all political stripes found reasons to ignore the Vietnamese....
...Much like the role Vietnam played in American politics long after US choppers had flown Saigon, the Iraq syndrome stalks foreign policy debate....
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