Word: blowingly
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Zhang, who holds a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T., sees parallels between his recent attempt to scale Everest and his near death business experience: "The temperature was subzero, with winds threatening to blow my tent over, and I was constantly out of breath. But as bad as it was, I'd sooner do it all again than repeat what I went through after the bubble burst." Is he out to climb more mountains? Undoubtedly; he's not afraid of heights. --By Kaiser Kuo/Chengdu
...then, with victory on the horizon, I blow it, throwing away the last 100 baht on a bunch of wax bananas. Well, every campaign has its casualties, and in Chatuchak it's likely to be your sanity as well as your hundred bucks...
...Though the mutineers backed down, it's hard to see Arroyo as a clear victor. The mutiny was a painful black eye for the economist-turned-president on the weekend before her final State of the Nation address on Monday. Government officials fear that the biggest blow could be to investor sentiment towards the economy. "This is really destructive for the image of the country," complains Trade Secretary Mar Roxas. And that's the last thing the Philippines needs...
...administrator, Paul Bremer, had warned that supporters of the old regime would seek revenge for the killing of Uday and Qusay Hussein by U.S. forces in Mosul on Tuesday. The death of two of the three men at the heart of Saddam's regime certainly delivered a telling blow against those fighting to resurrect it, but it remains far from clear that the death of Uday and Qusay Hussein - confirmed for Iraqis Thursday by the publication of grisly photographs of their corpses - will end the resistance that has plagued U.S. reconstruction efforts. Indeed, the same day as the photographs were...
...Still, despite the blow of losing Qusay and Uday Hussein, nobody's expecting the still-intensifying resistance will suddenly abate. U.S. officials have said repeatedly they don't believe the attacks on coalition forces - averaging somewhere between 12 and 20 a day - are being directly orchestrated by Saddam and his family, but are instead carried out by cell structures organized on regional and local lines. Just last week, Centcom commander General John Abizaid warned that the resistance fighters were clearly digging in for a long fight, in which case they would have steeled themselves for the likelihood of sustaining significant...