Word: clamoring
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...twenty, not just one. For if you kill twenty, your fame will spread; if you kill only one, they will hang you as a murderess." The Bandit Queen?s story certainly bore out that maxim. But the maxim has a corollary: The more people you kill; the wider the clamor for revenge...
...knee-jerk market reaction - down, down, down with a clamor - only presaged the peanut-gallery response to what may be seen as one of the least popular Fed moves in a long, long time. Because while the steep-sloped graph of Fed rate cuts this year now shows a distinct leveling off - right smack in the middle of the weakest economic quarter in a decade - nowhere in the 200-word accompanying statement was any hint of why Alan Greenspan chose June 27, 2001 to ease off on the throttle...
...Perhaps after the clamor, reflection will slowly take root. Perhaps we'll just distract ourselves with the teary family stories and the umpteenth capital-punishment pro-and-cons. Or switch off Katie, put a CD on the car stereo instead of the news. And either way, mutter afterward about how the parade of talking heads trivialized a moment of national gravity, made it into another meaningless parade, another Survivor finale - how this most intimate and public of moments was stripped of its chilling meaning. Yes, yes. And isn't that exactly what we will have wanted...
...quickly, however, we tend to forget how bad our injuries really were. That is certainly the tendency in calamity-prone India. Soon after a flood, drought, cyclone, landslide or train wreck, the air is filled with the sound of breast-beating demands for efficient disaster management. Then the clamor subsides and the victims of tragedy are forgotten?until the next calamity...
...Powell let his subordinates negotiate the details, although he did occasionally intervene to ensure that the phraseology of the final U.S. letter that settled the matter not give too much away. And while diplomats and administration officials painstakingly parsed different drafts of a document designed to satisfy the Chinese clamor for an apology without actually apologizing, Powell became the Bush team's public face on the issue, reassuring America's jangled nerves and coaxing and cajoling the Chinese forward. And that was a role tailor-made for the administration's most charismatic figure, whose soft-spoken self-confidence kept...