Word: alongism
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...along with the many loyal fans Barbie has won over in her five decades, she has her fair share of critics. The group Anti-Barbie was formed in 2002 by former Barbie collectors "who finally had enough of the negative impact Barbie was having on today's society," as their website states. Anti-Barbie is not the first to complain that the skinny doll instills in young girls impossible ideals of beauty. Numerous studies have looked at the effect of Barbie exposure on females of all ages, and many of their findings have not been pretty. A study published...
Well, yeah, except that Goldman and JPMorgan played right along with many of the Wall Street practices that led to the crisis. They fought regulation - of derivatives, for instance - that might have prevented it. And their big profits can be traced not only to skill but also to the government's decision last fall to bail out the financial sector just as the troubles that toppled Lehman Brothers and WaMu and forced Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Wachovia into shotgun marriages began to endanger Goldman and (to a lesser extent) JPMorgan. "No one should be confused about the extent...
Just when North Korea couldn't possibly provoke more condemnation, along comes Kimjongilia to pile...
...weeks, it had been impossible to ignore the quiet revolution coming to East Africa. Across Nairobi, work crews could be seen unspooling thousands of meters of black cable into freshly dug trenches along the city's roads. The flurry of work was all done in anticipation of what was heralded as the dawn of a new era: At long last, East Africa would be connected to an undersea fiber-optic Internet cable, and with it, to the planet's cheap, high-speed information superhighway...
...recession hits Russia's wealthy, the shiny boutiques along Sloane Street may be a little quieter. But the bonanza at London's courts and law firms looks set to continue...