Word: donnybrooke
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...troops sealed off the Afghan side, trapping the terrorists. Things went awry when Mohmand tribesmen and Afghan fighters supporting the U.S. forces attacked the Pakistani soldiers. The Pakistanis, unsurprisingly, shot back. All together a dozen were killed or injured, and the U.S. was left to referee a nasty diplomatic donnybrook between key allies...
What followed was a sustained scientific Donnybrook. Roses, whose penchant for plain speaking had long irritated his peers, was attacked--viciously, he says--and he proceeded to fight back in kind. He dubbed his opposition the Amyloid People and mercilessly taunted them. The plaques, he argued--and still argues--were just tombstones, markers of places where brain cells had died, not the cause of death. On one occasion, Roses sent Selkoe, who had co-founded a company to work on Alzheimer's therapeutics, a photograph inscribed with the message "Dennis, you're wrong--but you're going to be rich...
...books to disguise Livent's precarious financial condition. He's been accused of hiding expenses, of misleading auditors and devising a kickback scheme that funneled more than $5 million to him and his longtime partner Myron Gottlieb (his co-defendant, who has also denied the charges). The legal donnybrook drove Drabinsky to shelter in his native Canada, although he is subject to extradition, which is awaiting the conclusion of an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
...gave a lecture on global warming's vexing politics--the Senate would soundly reject the treaty in its current form--and abruptly ended the meeting. The green lobbyists concede that the public isn't yet ready to back painful measures to combat global warming, but contend that a political donnybrook led by the Vice President, even in a losing cause, would raise awareness. Not so, says Gore. "We lost the fight in 1993," he observes, referring to the far-reaching "BTU tax" on fuels that went down to defeat. "We're not yet winning the fight for the proposals...
...when the serene ripples of Chopin fade away, it's back to the clangor of Arnault's other preoccupation, business. At the moment he is involved in a donnybrook with Robert W. Miller, a minority stockholder in the DFS Group Ltd., a duty-free retailer of leather goods and perfume, particularly LVMH's leather goods and perfumes. Arnault thought he had maneuvered around Miller by buying out his partners' 38.75% share for $1.6 billion. But Miller hung tough, declaring that "despite his promises, Bernard Arnault has a pattern of exploiting the assets of partially acquired companies for the benefit...