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The film’s title is a reference to the path to paradise in the Islamic faith, explained in a few hasty sentences of text right at the start.

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Friday morning had been full of routines for most: packing school lunches, eating a hasty breakfast before work, catching the bus.

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That’s when people make hasty decisions that don’t totally align with their goals.

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The backlash triggered a hasty softening of the tone from Beijing.

These and other factors “snowballed into a liquidity crisis” — that is, the company needed a hasty infusion of cash.

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