Word: downtrodden
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...main street, we saw workers in blue coveralls in manholes; pedestrians with umbrellas, most dressed in plain clothes - women in skirts, men in Mao suits or just shirts, trousers and plain zip front jackets. Their attitude was subdued, perhaps downtrodden, but not uniformly so. On the street, a mixture of Chinese and Japanese cars, and even a few bright blue boxy Volvos puttered by. A lot of people were hanging around doing nothing...
...with police. But out of sight, in the rural towns, resistance was surging. For the first time, the ordinary workers, who had made up the faithful bloc of Milosevic's supporters for years, turned out against him. These were the backbone of the nation, the weather-beaten farmers, the downtrodden shopkeepers and, most crucially, the stolid miners in the coal-black core of Serbia who kept the nation's electricity alight. When they spontaneously launched their local protests to drive out Milosevic, the balance of power shifted...
...move that struck many in Moscow's downtrodden business circles as quixotic, BMW set up shop in Russia last fall. The arrival represents a return to an area closely linked with German history. Before World War II, the Russian region of Kaliningrad, separated from the motherland by Poland and Lithuania, was Konigsberg, capital of East Prussia. From 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union, it served as a major Soviet naval base and was off limits to Westerners. But now BMW's $25 million joint venture is up and running and--mirabile dictu--is actually assembling cars from...