Word: brazen
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...that includes stock analysts, a Croatian aunt, and at least one exotic dancer. His pretrial hearing will take place on September 6. According to the criminal complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange commission, Plotkin and former Goldman Sachs analyst David Pajcin organized a “widespread and brazen international scheme of serial insider trading...resulting in at least $6.7 million of illicit gains.” The complaint says that Plotkin and Pajcin paid forklift operator Nickolaus Shuster a flat fee for him to relay the contents of BusinessWeek’s “Inside Wall Street?...
...sonic booms continued, the Israeli Defense Forces began shelling Northern Gaza - a measure taken, officials said, to halt Qassam rocket fire from the area into Israel - and seemed poised to cross into the territory. The Israeli Air Force also buzzed the summer home of Syria's president, a brazen, none-too-subtle message conveying Israel's feelings about Meshal's ongoing residency in Damascus. Potentially further complicating matters is the fact that a militant group in the West Bank has claimed to have kidnapped an Israeli civilian, a claim not yet verified but being taken very seriously by Israeli security...
...type of terrorist. While Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri issued impotent threats from their hideouts, al-Zarqawi got his hands bloody in Iraq, turning it into the holy war's primary battlefield. He became the jihad's eminent fighter-superstar, embracing and embellishing his infamy with brazen declarations and brutal atrocities--he personally decapitated American Nicholas Berg on videotape, sent scores of suicide bombers to their doom, killed fellow Muslims and attacked their houses of worship. He extended his reach beyond Iraq, dispatching suicide bombers to attack hotels in his native Jordan last November, killing...
...Under his command, the rebels have managed to seize and hold the heights overlooking the three main access roads into the capital. At times they have probed Dili's outer suburbs, menacing the Army headquarters with a brazen attack on the barracks at the city's edge...
...welcome respite. Representing Skinner at his most accessible, songs like “All Goes Out the Window” and “Never Went to Church” are either offerings to the less adventurous of his listeners, or minor failures. Ever an intriguing combination of brazen bollocks jokes and swings at cultural insight, it can be hard to tell where Skinner is aiming his punches at times. Then again, albums with songs dedicated to themes as disparate as trashed hotel rooms and late fathers aren’t all that strange in the rap world. And besides...