Word: blowingly
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With that five-second flash, India dealt a serious blow to the controlled nuclear universe. Washington's reaction was swift and furious. First, Tenet ordered a post-mortem on the CIA's failures, due in 10 days. Then the President imposed economic sanctions on India, as required by the never used 1994 Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act, cutting off military and economic aid, totaling about $140 million annually, and barring military exports and U.S. bank loans. These restrictions will not gravely damage India's economy, but the U.S. is also bound to oppose loans from the IMF and the World Bank...
...alchemy of derivatives rests on complex mathematical models that predict how markets and derivatives will behave under certain assumptions. The computer models use past market performance to portend the future, but they can't account for the unaccountable: every once in a while an asteroid does strike or countries blow up. These things aren't fully factored in the modeling. Besides, the global economy today is radically different from just five years ago. "Banks have been going out further and further on the risk spectrum, especially the big banks," says Furash. "They are all looking for bigger returns, since they...
This passage captures the ironic, skeptical attitude Lucas tries to maintain toward religious enthusiasms and mania. But he is also emotionally drawn to the subject. He starts research on a book about the Jerusalem Syndrome just as a dramatic instance of it--a plan, no less, to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount--begins to engulf people he knows and eventually him as well...
WASHINGTON: This one could be for real. Republicans have finally found themselves a presidential scandal that goes beyond land deals, beyond peccadilloes, all the way to the selling of America's national security. And they don't want to blow it this time...
...director told Howard Stern. "He starts it all up again." Tarantino told the guy to get out of his face. "And then our friend says the magic words: 'Make me.' At that point I just stood up and popped him." Somehow, the man's girlfriend also sustained a blow. But what really irked the apparently quite irkable director was that the New York Post labeled him a racist because of the incident. "What I put into my life and work," he said, "with that one sentence they p_____ all over...