Word: boom
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...camera stumbles upon a door, it bursts open, the hand of the dying woman drops, a guttural boom blasts from the sub, and that four-dollar bucket of flat Diet Coke resting patiently at your side becomes fizzy and fresh on your lap as you jump—hard. It’s these moments—when some random horrific element comes from nowhere—that make the first act of The Grudge, Hollywood’s latest attempt at remaking a foreign blockbuster, extremely enjoyable. Yet tension gives way to torpor as the first act crawls...
...watching every move, and cheering every note. On the set closer “Life and How to Live It,” a true shoulda-been-a-hit from 1985’s Fables of the Reconstuction, the band went just a tad overboard, with the fiercely energetic boom of the guitars and drums drowning out Stipe and Mills’s murmuring vocals...
...stronger U.N. Europe will applaud if the U.S. Supreme Court continues to upgrade legal standards for prisoners at Guantánamo. Few expect Bush's second term to be as unilateralist as the first. But he will be skeptical of treaties and international law. ASIA China's boom makes it an indispensable economic partner for Europe and the U.S., but its cheap wages and huge trade surplus lie behind popular complaints about "exporting American jobs" - which Bush may need to respond to. Washington doesn't want European companies to sell high-tech defense goods to Beijing that might give...
...lasted even longer, reporting on business and political issues from every country in the region. But last week owner Dow Jones & Co. announced that following six unprofitable years, the Review would be turned into a monthly periodical of opinion pieces put out by a tiny editorial staff. The Asian boom that was the Review's story for 58 years wasn't enough to keep it in business...
There has been no responsible long-term economic planning, little thought given to how we pay for the coming baby-boom retirement. Or how the rapid industrialization of China and India will affect the American middle class: the issue is not just jobs, but also soaring prices for commodities like oil. Or how long can we sustain a global economic system in which the combined U.S. budget and trade deficits soak up 79% of the world's savings, as they did in 2003. Given the deepening evidence of American unilateralism and fiscal irresponsibility, the world may soon find more pressing...