Word: albatross
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...whose fates were joined by the 4,000-kg bomb that killed more than 75,000 people on that warm, clear August morning, are set on a collision course, but one that ultimately leads to understanding. For B?ll, the scientific triumph of his career has become a paralyzing albatross, quietly hounding his conscience. "Dreams," B?ll concedes, "sometimes become nightmares." The book's pages, too, are haunted with visions of the devastation: "polka dots and stripes, the clothing patterns that the blast imprinted on the skin...
...Murdoch Sr. had bought STAR from Hong Kong's Richard Li in 1995 for $950 million. A perpetual money loser, it initially looked like News Corp.'s overpriced albatross. STAR has no shortage of eyeballs?it beams its satellite signal to 300 million people?yet it has virtually no control over subscribers on the ground. Instead, it is heavily dependent on advertising revenue. But STAR was a first mover in these vast new markets. And it was central to Murdoch's vision of constructing a global satellite network?a dream foiled recently by his failed bid for DirecTV...
...double misery. Not only did he have to deal with “asshole” Crimson editors and their inability to get the paper out before the wee hours of the morning, but he also had the “fuckin’ albatross around his neck” (one of his choicest descriptions of the Mag) which guaranteed that he wouldn’t leave the building until dawn. I remember standing on the filthy and entirely precarious landing at the top of the stairs pasting up the Mag and being accosted by Pat as he walked down...
...among the debris. Nine survivors struggled aboard. As rescue planes alerted by Blown's Mayday message began gathering, the Chinese government warned colonial Hong Kong's British administration that no military aircraft were to approach the accident scene. The message was acknowledged but ignored. That afternoon a U.S. Navy Albatross amphibian from Clark Field in the Philippines landed beside the raft and flew the survivors to Hong Kong...
...hard charger who only snickers when he gets blasted in the papers. He was also Jeb Bush's running mate in his failed 1994 gubernatorial race - and his hard-right ideology was widely implicated in the loss. But if Feeney is afraid of playing the same p.r. albatross to Jeb's brother, he doesn...