Word: brazenness
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Waddah also learned a little bit about the "emir," or leader of the criminal gang. The guards described him as a bold and brazen criminal who masterminded the kidnapping of many high-value targets: rich businessmen, government officials, even a tribal sheik. The gang leader had been a senior official in Saddam's dreaded intelligence service, the Mukhabarat. The emir was also an expert in torture, able to extract information from the most stubborn captives. But he rarely took part in the interrogations anymore; in fact, he only occasionally visited the house. While he concentrated on other, unspecified business interests...
...error occurred while processing this directive] The other is a gritty city where malcontent punks swig beer in spit-and-sawdust dives. Or so we're led to believe. But with the 2008 Olympic Games less than two years away, Beijing is undergoing a maniacal makeover - nowhere more brazen than in the city's wining-and-dining scene. With its army of foreign Mandarin students, Beijing has traditionally been the city of the cut-price tequila shot, but the coming sporting extravaganza is attracting accomplished restaurateurs who formerly kept the cheapskate capital at arm's length. That means everything from...
...also a chance, the officials agree, for Panama's ruling class to shed its notorious reputation for brazen malfeasance by managing the new canal wealth responsibly and finally doing right by the 40% of Panamanians living in poverty. The country's GDP per capita is $4,318, which still makes it No. 2 in Central America. Serious doubts about income redistribution are a big reason that only 22% of respondents to a recent poll said they thought the expansion would bring real economic benefits to Panama and its population of 3.2 million. Some 64% of Panamanians said they support...
...crisis, so the media’s story went, began with an act of brazen aggression on June 25 when Hamas militants tunneled under the Israeli border and attacked an Israeli military post, killing two soldiers, wounding four, and kidnapping one. Israel immediately invoked the language of “just war,” asserted their right to retaliation, and began air-strikes and an invasion of Gaza...
...common, other than a history of playacting in flight gear? They work in towns where secrecy is an expression of power. Sure, secrets can be the means to important ends, but as publicists and White House aides know, keeping secrets is an end in itself. Even when it's brazen--especially when it's brazen--secrecy affirms and bolsters your alpha status: I know you want to know this thing. But you do not have the leverage to make me talk about this thing. Therefore...