Word: chaotically
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...number that is expected to double by 2020. The railroads' relatively modest growth expectations are grounded in some harsh economic realities: new high-speed rail lines take years to plan and build as well as billions of dollars in investment. Moreover, Europe's rail operators are just beginning a chaotic period of industry restructuring and consolidation that usually accompanies deregulation...
...power structure described in the book is chaotic and often bumbling. In Zhao's narrative, Deng is a conflicted figure who urges Zhao to push hard for economic change but demands a crackdown on anything that seems to challenge the party's authority. Deng is at times portrayed not as an emperor but as a puppet subject to manipulation by Zhao or his rivals, depending on who presents his case to the old man first...
...From its exterior, the slaughterhouse I visited looked very unlike the chaotic street market in Vietnam—its whitewashed walls satisfy our desire to ignore how meat is made. But inside the process was just as menacing: Huge chutes drove a pig every three seconds toward her death...
...name for her, “Violet;” Lateef and his given name, “Rufus White.” The alternating perspectives of the narrative themselves constitute a sort of double identity, mirroring the dynamic between the world of institutions above ground and the dank, chaotic world of the subway, where Will feels most at home. The universe is schizophrenic, and even the normal characters like Lateef become different people underground...
...Geneva It's a Walkout A U.N. conference on racism turned chaotic after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "cruel and repressive racist regime." His outburst confirmed fears of the U.S. and other nations, which boycotted the event on the assumption that it would be used to castigate Israel. As some attendees stormed out in protest, activists in rainbow wigs pelted the Iranian leader with red clown noses...