Word: discontentment
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WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE U.S. The growing discontent over Europe's currency system could prove disastrous here, because many foreign investors holding euros would probably switch to dollar-denominated investments. That might help bonds and to a lesser degree stocks, but another consequence would be to thrust the greenback...
What It Means for the U.S. The growing discontent over Europe's currency system could prove disastrous here, because many foreign investors holding euros would probably switch to dollar-denominated investments. That might help bonds and to a lesser degree stocks, but another consequence would be to thrust the greenback...
Under pressure from propaganda officials, Guangzhou-based Southern Weekend this month sacked three editors and effectively downgraded itself from the sassiest read in China to a rag as bland as the People's Daily. It's the latest casualty in the Communist Party's battle against the nation's increasingly...
MISUSED STATS In his new book The Sum of Our Discontent (Texere), David Boyle suggests that our demand for precision often leads to misleading or silly numbers. For example:
While her Cabinet advisers tried to reassure Arroyo that the mass protests against her were nothing more than rent-a-crowds, she knew better. She understood that social discontent was bubbling away over the country's high unemployment rate, corruption and nonexistent social services, and Arroyo was an obvious target...