"The emigres often work as a Trojan horse, lobbying on your behalf. They use external opportunities to succeed prodigiously in different occupations. And they can bring their skills and funds home to assist the country in its economic takeoff."
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Trojan horse
The Trojan Horse, in lore about the Trojan War was a huge wooden horse (Δούρειος Ἵππος, Doúreios Híppos), which hid a select force of warriors inside, used by the Greeks as a subterfuge to gain entrance to the city of Troy. After a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greek armies left it before the gates of the city and sailed away. The Trojans then pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy, and those inside crept out of the horse in the night and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek f
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