From Abu Dhabi, a 17-hour flight from Los Angeles, the "Star Wars" crew would have been shuttled past the city's modern high rises, its suburbs' pristine Mediterranean McMansions, the outskirts' shabby workers quarters, then desolate salt flats, an occasional goat herder taking refuge under a makeshift tent and grazing camel herds.
A shabby train workers' shed on the edge of a parking lot might not sound very "St Moritz" (even the name St Moritz is trademarked as a brand) but La Baracca is the cash-only, in-place for fur-meets-fleece parties.
Everyone around him overplays, including Chris Elliott, who is even more shameless than Mr. Murray, as his shabby co-worker, and Molly Shannon, as his daughter's neurotic teacher.
It shows a shabby but dignified worker standing tall as his wife leans disconsolately against him, a baby on her arm.
Whatever the level of German involvement, the president said, it was Poles who did the killing.The mayor of Jedwabne, Krzysztof Godlewski, wonders what all this is doing to his shabby town, 40% of whose workers are unemployed.
Workers frequently live in shabby housing provided by the recruiters, who put restrictions on travel beyond the housing complex or the factory.
Just one block from the founding meeting site, Song Houfu, a laid-off factory worker, sat in his shabby one-room apartment on the second floor of a half-demolished building and groused about how the party has changed.
Unions are banned in Qatar but in a room above a shabby Indian restaurant in Doha, 15 Nepalese workers rearranged the tables and chairs for a "totally illegal" support group meeting.
If upheld, this ruling will facilitate both organizing of fast food workers and going after a range of shabby practices for which the parent corporation disclaims responsibility, holding that the franchisee did it.
This long-term decline in bargaining power for workers and communities leads us to a shabbier Lesser America.
IN APRIL 2010, as part of a scheme to beautify the rundown port near the centre of Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic games, workers were replacing the drainage system in a shabby square when they found some old cans.
