Word: blowingly
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...guards whipped him with his own belt and choked him with his shoelaces. Last December, when Li tried to enter a National People's Congress (NPC) petition office with his precious stack of documents, an official grabbed the papers and lit them on fire?to Li, a more devastating blow than any physical torture. "Without my papers, there is no way I can get justice," says Li, his 45-year-old face etched with the wrinkles of a far older man. Now he is worried that irate local officials who are tired of him complaining about them in Beijing might...
...board members Roy Disney and his partner, Stanley Gold. The duo quit the company last fall, fed up with Eisner's alleged mismanagement, and are trying to persuade shareholders not to re-elect him at the company's annual meeting on March 3. Eisner suffered a body blow when Steve Jobs, Pixar Animation Studio's boss, decided not to renew a co-production and distribution agreement after 10 months of sometimes acrimonious negotiations. Pixar's computer-animated films, from Toy Story to Finding Nemo, have produced billions in revenue for Disney...
...from 60% in 1995 to just 28% last year, according to Swedish pollster SIFO. "There is a severe crisis in public confidence in the business sector," says Erik Asbrink, who heads a five-member commission appointed by the Swedish government to restore trust. Skandia is an especially severe psychological blow. The $4.7 billion firm is the largest insurer in the Nordic area and the oldest listed company on the Stockholm exchange. In 1999, Petersson was chosen by Veckans Affärer, a Swedish weekly business magazine, as the best CEO in Sweden. Now he's facing two serious allegations: that...
According to professors, Harvard researchers last week were dealt a humbling blow when a monumental medical breakthrough in stem cell research took place in a South Korean...
...across the student body like an unpleasant rash as more and more joined to build connected social networks in a bid to prove their own popularity. There was the obligatory flattering photo adorning each profile—my own completely unrepresentative image, for example, was all wide-eyed and blow-dried, culled from a photo album otherwise sadly dominated by slightly demonic red eyes and uncontrollably frizzy hair...