Reply #63: I didn't read about that in the Sunday newspaper [View All]

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I think Sundays are not the what they are cracked up to be. I heard most wars are started on that day.

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Traditionally, the controlling foreign power need not be a state; a corporation such as the United Fruit Company can play the role. The imposition of such a arrangement can be appreciated in a poem by Pablo Neruda, titled "La United Fruit Co." in Spanish.

The term has come to be used to describe a generally unstable or "backwards" dictatorial regime or a country where fraudulent elections are regularly held.
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