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Some employers are trying to bring workers together without alienating or uprooting them.

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The move will mean Trismik’s team of one Brit, one Italian and one Finn will have to uproot their lives in Europe.

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One by one, the anchors holding people in place - home, community, family - have been loosened by the constant uprooting of Gaza's population and the razing of its neighbourhoods and streets.

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More had settled elsewhere and didn’t want to uproot themselves again, she said.

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People who were in the path of the deadly wall of water that swept down the mountainside stood little chance as it washed away a bridge, uprooted trees and submerged vehicles.

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