Word: defiant
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...need another infusion without big changes. But for two reasons, this rescue may be different. First, commercial banks are no longer playing along, as they did in 1999 when pressured to save doomed construction firm Philipp Holzmann. Facing troubles of their own, Germany's private-sector banks are now defiant about preserving dying companies in amber. Only state-controlled banks ponied up this time. The second thing that may make this rescue different is that MobilCom CEO Thorsten Grenz outlined a restructuring that could make it work, including slashing 3G and a third of the workforce. "The loan...
...Siddique was the most experienced in guerrilla warfare, the most defiant and considered the most dangerous of the trio by his jailers because he had tried to grab a policeman's revolver shortly after he was arrested. "This man would shoot us all if he saw a chance to escape," muttered the Indian officer in charge. The prisoners, seated in a dim interrogation cell, said Islamabad would not demand their extradition because it did not acknowledge their presence in Kashmir. Said Mahmood: "We all knew, when we came, that we might not be able to go home...
...after Sept. 11, Sana wanted to wear something special--something defiant--to school. So she pulled on a T shirt that said SEEDS OF PEACE. An essay she had written in the spring of 2001 about the plight of Lahore's street kids had won her a trip in August to a Maine camp sponsored by a New York group called Seeds of Peace, which brings together young people from war-torn regions around the world...
...infrastructure was significantly damaged, even if precious little is known about the fate of bin Laden and his lieutenants or their ability to mount new operations around the globe. The Qaeda threat remains, but beyond the fascination with bin Laden among some Muslim youth who view him as a defiant hero, most of the Muslim world has followed the lead of imams who refused to lend him any support and prevented his extremist fire from spreading. Not only did the Muslim troops of the Afghan opposition fight with renewed determination against bin Laden's Taliban hosts after Sept...
Until quite recently, a child who behaved like this would have been presumed to have either attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or oppositional defiant disorder. Bipolar would not even have been considered. And with good reason: the classic bipolar profile, at least as it appears in adults, is almost never seen in kids...