Word: chases
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...Flightplan” lies in its subtleties—in its application of fast-moving cuts and disjunctive editing. The quietest moments of stillness, soft cues of music and whispers, and Foster’s restlessness project as much tension and charged anxiety as any proliferation of explosion-powered chase sequences might...
Ingenious though a lot of this detail is, Memoirs provides far too much of it. The chase, often gripping, also goes on too long, though the bond between Halloway and his relentless chief pursuer -- the one person he can talk to and who truly understands him -- lends an intriguing psychological edge to the action. First Novelist H.F. Saint, 46, a Manhattan businessman, clearly knows his financial world and takes it none too seriously. Analysts, brokers, commodities traders are all wickedly caricatured, and in one of the book's most fascinating passages, Halloway's invisibility affords sweet revenge on the market...
...that the Israelis ran away from Hamas. The fact that it was a unilateral withdrawal is taken by those same Palestinians as evidence that negotiations by the Palestinian Authority don't get such good results as Hamas's violence. Now, leaders of Hamas's military wing say they'll chase the Israelis out of the West Bank in the end, the same way they pushed them out of Gaza...
Carpenter was even more dismayed to find that his work with the FBI had got him in trouble at Sandia. He says that when he first started tracking Titan Rain to chase down Sandia's attackers, he told his superiors that he thought he should share his findings with the Army, since it had been repeatedly hit by Titan Rain as well. A March 2004 Sandia memo that Carpenter gave TIME shows that he and his colleagues had been told to think like "World Class Hackers" and to retrieve tools that other attackers had used against Sandia. That...
...that the U.S. uses, and nine times what Japan consumes. Analysts now worry that the economy is finally beginning to show the strain. "We're particularly concerned that rising energy costs will amplify the existing squeeze on corporate profit margins in China," says Ben Simpfendorfer, an economist at JPMorgan Chase in Hong Kong. Indeed, Shanghai Petrochemical, a unit of the state-owned oil company Sinopec, warned last week that profits in the second half of this year will decline significantly. If other companies feel a similar pinch, as Simpfendorfer fears, that could crimp one of the main drivers of China...