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On the Jaffna Peninsula the army converted a former officers' mess into a 22-room luxury resort.
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In Silicon Valley, bankruptcy is treated like a duelling scar in a Prussian officers' mess.
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There are 16 buildings on the airbase, including former radar rooms, tennis and squash courts, station headquarters and the old officers' mess.
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There are 16 buildings on the site, including former radar rooms, tennis and squash courts, station headquarters and the old officers' mess.
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The officers' mess is the local planter's club, founded by the British.
BBC: Magazine
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From the officers' mess of the South Waziristan Scouts, the FC's Wana-based contingent, formed in 1899, it is tempting to think Waziristan has hardly changed since those colonial days.
ECONOMIST: Waziristan
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Another sign of the mess is that sickness levels among prison officers (14.7 days per year) are the highest in the public sector.
ECONOMIST: Prisons
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Add to this the fact that any public-sector worker can hide behind union power to game the system 82% of senior California Highway Patrol officers discover a disabling injury about a year before they retire and you have a dysfunctional mess.
ECONOMIST: Public-sector workers