Word: disdainful
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Even growing companies have shut down in the face of VC disdain and looming cash shortages. Three weeks ago, Kibu.com a start-up that had made healthy inroads in the teen-girl market by building a cyberchat "hangout," shocked analysts by closing while it still had a healthy bank balance. The reason? Kibu was unlikely to be "valued appropriately"--in other words, stupefyingly overvalued--by a market that has lost its appetite for IPOs. So it gave investors some of their money back. Indeed, the shell-shocked look on the faces of dotcomers who only yesterday had dreamed of Maseratis...
...Bush benefited from a double standard. Residual disdain for the teacher's pet makes it satisfying to catch a smarty pants like Gore in an error, while it's no fun to go after the class cutup. This is not meant to excuse Gore's earlier performance in Boston or withhold credit from Bush for passing an exam on world affairs. But had the standard of accuracy operating in the first debate been applied in the second, Bush would not have fared as well. For instance, Bush said we should pull our troops out of Haiti, but there...
...prolonged disdain of investors can be like the hot lamps in an interrogation room: You sweat a lot and, eventually, you break down and tell them whatever they want to hear...
Bush has been most effective, he further noted, in addressing the issue of Gore's character. An ad that features women expressing disdain while viewing clips of the vice president at the famed Buddhist temple fundraiser and making his claim that he had invented the Internet incited the most reaction from the members of the audience, who cheered when the ad was aired at the forum...
...crimes tribunal. "He wants the Serbian people to be proud," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told TIME, "but he is not an ethnic killer. He is not a former communist, and he believes in the rule of law." And while Kostunica doesn't hide his disdain for U.S. officials, he is eager to normalize relations with the E.U. and join European institutions such as the Stability Pact--which binds members to cooperation and nonaggression--all of which would impel him to blunt his nationalist impulses. Says a hopeful Stojan Cerovic, a columnist at the Yugoslav newsmagazine Vreme: "There...