Ports, airports and banks are barely functioning, troops have been called out to pump petrol, strikebound oil tankers lie at anchor and exports have all but ceased.
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Strikebound but stoic, they proudly speak of their beloved " Systeme D " to find a way to get by, or " debrouiller ."
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Security for world leaders in town for the Bosnian peace-deal signing will turn the strikebound city into what one senior French official calls " hell on the Seine ."
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The announcement was issued after a stunning and swift turn of events at the strikebound Kolubara mine, the largest of the protests that the opposition launched to force Milosevic to accept defeat.
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The embattled Venezuelan president _ his rule under threat from turmoil in the strikebound, oil-producing nation _ left the country Wednesday to attend the inauguration of the new Brazilian president.
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But there was no representation from the Detroit Red Wings, a bedrock franchise owned by Mike Ilitch, a pizza baron who also owns the Detroit Tigers of strikebound major-league baseball.
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Weary passengers flopped on mattresses Friday at Israel's strikebound international airport, cash-strapped bank customers laid siege to automatic teller machines, and produce rotted aboard ships unable to leave port.
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All striking workers should be fired, " fumed Kim Jung-soo, 57, shifting his feet as he waited in a long line at a strikebound bank branch office in Seoul.
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He was talking about replacement players, with whom major league owners are expected to try to stock their strikebound teams next spring, and he was asked how much clubs would have to pay them.
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The mass march on Belgrade followed a day of dramatic developments at the strikebound Kolubara coal mine in which police were forced to abandoned plans to take over the compound after confronting fearless anti-Milosevic crowds.
