Word: brazened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Microsoft train new hires on blog etiquette. Curt Hopkins of Ashland, Ore., says a public radio station cut short a job interview after the boss read his blog; he was later hired by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to "build buzz online." Trunk, who now blogs about workplace issues on Brazen Careerist, says telling young workers not to blog is like telling a baby boomer not to use the phone. "When major corporations try too hard to block the electronic community," she says, "Generation Y just leaves...
...firepower count for very little. Despite an ongoing 50,000-man, joint U.S.-Iraqi military operation dubbed Operation Forward Together to flush Baghdad clean of nationalist insurgents, jihadist terrorists and sectarian militias, the capital is as dangerous as ever. If anything, the Shi'ite militias are getting more brazen; a few days after my return, they entered the largely Sunni neighborhood of al-Jihad and slaughtered at least 50 people, including several women and children. Eight days later, Sunni fighters attacked a market in Mahmoudiya, just south of the capital, and mowed down more than 50 Shi'ites. Increasingly, attacks...
...picture of Buenos Aires is like laying down $60 for a greasy dinner and an overwrought tango performance—it’s simply not the real thing. People forget that Buenos Aires, despite what its inhabitants may tell you, is, in the end, a South American city: brazen political corruption, misinformation, and bureaucracy like you wouldn’t believe are everyday realities here, not to mention a serious paucity of quality electronics.Better to find a local milonga ($3-5 US), a dance hall where ordinary Argentines go to tango until dawn: It’s much more...
Landis tested positive for abnormal testosterone levels, a result confounding and dumbfounding, given that a number of prerace favorites were tossed from the Tour under a cloud of doping suspicion. Could he have been so brazen--or stupid? "I hoped there was a genuine hero in the making," says Dick Pound, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), who is quick to add that people shouldn't convict Landis right away. Still, it's painful. "Oh God," he says, "another nosebleed for the sport...
...have spoken with students here from diverse backgrounds and political perspectives, and they all agree that Israel was provoked into war by the brazen kidnappings of its soldiers. There is major disagreement, however, about the way Israel has pursued the enemy in Lebanon. There are those who think that the government has used too much force, and there are those who think that the country is doing what it needs to do to defend itself from current and future threats...