Word: blustering
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That may sound like entrepreneurial bluster, but Citron has set off alarm bells at the big telephone carriers, who proved once already that they weren't swift enough to react when they ignored the challenge of cell phones. Before Vonage, telecom giants like MCI, Verizon and AT&T dismissed the technology for broadband phone service as too buggy and too complicated to bother selling. Vonage has proved them wrong, mostly because broadband phone service has one compelling advantage: price. It's half as expensive as regular telephone service. The company now has 220,000 subscribers, a pittance beside...
Tough talk is cheap in Baghdad. But if the new interim government in Iraq is going to prevail in what Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vows will be a "showdown" with the insurgency ravaging the country, it will need to put serious muscle behind the bluster. That's where General Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani, the recently named boss of the newly formed Iraqi Intelligence Service, comes in. As Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh says of him, "Terrorism is fought best with intelligence...
...destroy the new world order. He just wants it to work more fairly. Though corruption allegations against top aides and economic troubles have caused Lula problems at home, he has become the developing world's new spokesman, a pragmatic populist who matches his anti-Yankee bluster with economic sobriety. His successes with pension and tax reforms have made Wall Street want to samba. Lula is often cited as the first leader to apply the social activism cum fiscal realism of Europe's "third way" to places where it is more needed. Brazil, for example, has one of the world...
...this seems like the bluster of someone who can't write a hit, it isn't. Adams has several songs--The Rescue Blues, Nuclear and, from his latest album, So Alive--that could be rock standards with a little promotional effort on his part, but he hates the thought of being imprisoned by popularity so much that he scolded Elton John for boosting him. "I was becoming a catch phrase," says Adams. "There's nothing worse than being the thing that uncool people buy because it makes them feel cool...
...taken some time for Americans to realize that Bush’s adventure in Iraq, for all of the bluster about an easy war and steady progress toward peace, will have devastating long-term consequences for U.S. foreign policy. Bush traded a war to prevent terror for a war that invites it, and the teachings of Iraqi terrorists will not be lost on malcontents worldwide, who now know that undermining U.S. presence is as easy...