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...most of its history, Liechtenstein was far from rich. In 1868, it had to disband its 80-man army to cut costs. "Maybe it was so easy for us to keep our independence because we were so poor that nobody wanted us," says Josef Beck, head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He says prosperity has come to the principality only over the last 20 or 30 years, and it "has a lot to do with the banks...
...don’t have that insight into the community, the community will think you’re just coming to fix them, so it seems condescending,” Graham says. “And then if the program should disband, it doesn’t help the community afterwards...
...Extending the cease-fire also allows Sadr to distance himself from the thuggish violence of members of his militia, while keeping the organization intact despite U.S. and Iraqi government demands that he disband...
...from an allegedly corrupt land sale while he was prime minister. (Thaksin has denied any wrongdoing.) He and 110 other members of his former political party, Thai Rak Thai, have also been banned from politics for five years for electoral fraud. Samak has vowed to amnesty them all, and disband the military-appointed committee investigating Thaksin on other corruption allegations...
Dora is an affluent, upper-middle class neighborhood, home to many former Iraqi army generals and intelligence officers, almost completely Sunni and Baathist. It was just the kind of place hit hard by the 2003 orders to disband the Iraqi army and purge the government of ranking Baath party members...