Gaugauzians who are largely of Turkish origin had much better arguments to claim independence from the Moldovan parent state in terms of ethnicity than the only regionally identifiable Pridnestrovians.

Clearly the preferred wound, it ranked in seriousness between a 'buckshee' or 'baksheesh', a slight would that merely took a man out of the line for a short time, and a 'N.Z. smack', which meant being invalided back to New Zealand, usually disabled for life.

In situations of unequal social power, such as encounters between health care providers and immigrant patients, fear and distrust related to undocumentedness and other cultural, economic, social, or political factors may be heightened.

But in the past eight months, I hadn't felt even a tremor of oneitis. In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable.