Word: amok
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...believe we will look back on the financial innovations of the last several decades with regret? -Francis Murray, Washington They almost brought our country down. The only guy who really called this right was Karl Marx. Marx understood what would happen if you let the market run amok. Of course, it was done by right-wing Republicans. They brought our nation to its knees, and we're not going to end up being a great power because of what happened...
...Gist: Imagine a world where pirates run amok, blowing themselves up in European city centers; where wars are ignited over lack of drinking water; where a global face-off between Islam and Christianity makes World War II look like a water-balloon fight. According to economist and political scientist Jacques Attali, that is what the future has in store for us by 2025. In the belief that past experiences are indicative future events, Attali combs through the history of human kind, all the way back to Homo Habilis, separating the past into nine distinct periods to isolate "what is possible...
...sense that I love what I do,” Black said. When asked about future plans, Black remarked that he is interested in writing books and plays, but also expressed interest in becoming the next president of Harvard. “I’d just run amok, never show up at anything,” he said, of his potential move to Mass. Hall. Black graduated from the Yale Graduate School of Drama in 1977, and has since worked on many projects, including numerous stand-up shows and a sketch on “The Daily Show?...
Like his predecessors, Kretschmer very likely "suffered from a severe personality disorder," says Lothar Adler from The Ecumenical Hainich Clinic in Muhlhausen, Thuringia. Adler is the author of "Amok - A Study" which was based on his analysis of almost 200 school shootings and other killing sprees. The psychiatrist, who was part of the post-Erfurt counseling team, explains that very often killers have pronounced narcissistic traits, problems in forming normal relationships and are easily offended. They also tend to have low frustration thresholds and can harbor grudges for long periods of time. Physiologically, Adler says, "they frequently also lack serotonin...
...rival, Republican Senator John McCain, that he finds his aging fleet of Marine One "white-tops" perfectly adequate. Many of the trips they take are short hops, like the 10 minutes between the White House and Andrews Air Force Base. "It is an example of the procurement process gone amok," Obama said after McCain queried him about the new helicopters ("I didn't have as much interest in the presidential helicopter," McCain noted on Tuesday, "as I had several months...