Word: blowingly
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...short-term consequences of that are serious: up to 18,000 employees could suddenly be looking for a job, while key domestic routes vital to the Italian economy would go underserved. In broader terms, Alitalia's demise would be yet another blow to the country's image abroad and to confidence at home. Berlusconi, who has maintained a hard line since negotiations imploded, has banked much of his credibility on resolving the crisis and keeping Alitalia under Italian ownership...
...Waits.But what Barry Hogan seems most excited for right now is My Bloody Valentine’s performance in New York. “The show they’ve done is so amazing,” he says. “It’s definitely set to blow your head off.”—Staff writer Jeff W. Feldman can be reached at jfeldman@fas.harvard.edu...
...credit-default swaps. (More on those later.) This lack of fear became a hothouse of greed and ignorance on Wall Street - and on Main Street as well. When greed exceeds fear, trouble follows. Wall Street has always been a greedy place and every decade or so it suffers a blow resulting in a bout of hand-wringing and regret, which always seems to be quickly forgotten...
...immensely profitable IPO in 1999 - an offering to which he had long objected - and reaped the dividends immediately. Overnight, his holdings in Goldman rocketed from $95 million to $315 million. Though his ascent to Treasury Secretary in 2006 was by all accounts a promotion, it was nonetheless a sharp blow to his wallet. The secretary position pays $191,300; in the year before he left Goldman, Paulson netted almost $40 million...
...terrorists' aim, according to officials, was to use the vehicle as a bomb blitz to blow apart the heavily fortified front gate about 200 yd. away. According to the plan, a second vehicle loaded with commandos armed with automatic weapons and grenades would speed through the breach and enter the embassy's chancery building, located another 200 yd. inside the compound. Once they made it inside, says TIME's source, their plan was to kill all the diplomatic personnel they could find. "Had they made it inside," he says, "it would have been a disaster...