Word: bulling
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...inch daguerreotype reflects in faithful detail that summation of his character. Huge and hulking, his portrait seems to extend beyond the planar surface to surreally three-dimensional proportions and his face, slightly jowled and obstinate, demands nothing short of rapt attention. He must have been a commanding bull of a thespian...
Second, the “bull in a china shop” analogy made by senior black Faculty members hurts people of color more than it does the intended target, presumably Summers. The analogy suggests that Summers was rough and tough, yet it also suggests that African-Americans are fragile like china, that we should be handled with care, lest we break apart. Martin Luther King Jr. was not china, nor was Thurgood Marshall, Sojourner Truth and numerous other African-American heroes who faced many “bulls” in their quest for justice and never broke apart...
There was a moment in the fall, back when baseball was suspended and planes were empty, when the prospect of the 2002 Winter Olympics was confounding at every turn. We were waging war; who could think of fun and Games? Some Salt Lake City residents, sensing a bull's-eye painted on their town, wished it would all be canceled; students petitioned that their school be closed for security reasons. The athletes, like the rest of us, were disturbed, distracted; a couple had lost relatives in the attacks. NBC was worried that its $545 million investment for broadcast rights might...
...good about their portfolios and retirements and thus spending more; it means the economic recovery can proceed apace. Enron, meanwhile, means a second guess - is this company truly good, or is it too good to be true? - and second-guessing is not the kind of attitude of which sustained bull markets are made. The Dow and NASDAQ's January chart lines are jagged, but the trend is clearly downward since Probe Day, January 9, and for every buyer whose glass is half full there seems to be two who'd rather wait before they take a drink...
...days since the story broke, senior black Faculty members have been quoted in the Boston Globe calling Summers a “bull in a china shop...