Word: envious
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...envious outsiders, Japanese business often seems to be an uninterrupted success story. But not last week. Japan's Sanko Steamship, the world's largest tanker operator, filed for protection from its creditors under the country's bankruptcy laws. The company's debts total $2.2 billion, making it the largest bankruptcy case in Japanese history...
...possible to foresee a crackdown after Deng passes. Support for greater central control of the economy could come from party officials fearful of losing control and from ordinary citizens envious of the new rich class. The Chinese press already reports many stories about this "red-eyed disease," like one about a peasant woman who poisoned all the ducks of a prosperous neighboring farmer...
...element of the complex structure echoes its content. In the first act the narrators are the women, and the action is the entwining of their friendship. In the second act the main narrators are the men, and the action is aggressive: once the architect has proposed his project, his envious friend undertakes to derail it. In the public as well as the private combat, the question is the same. Do people really want freedom, or do they simply want to want it? Do they have visions of what they seek, or do they secretly and ashamedly long for someone just...
...McMillan as Edgar, Lewis Gordon as Gloucester, and McKenna as a passionate, not just saintly, Cordelia. In an echo of Twelfth Night, Hirsch also features the Fool, whom Nicholas Pennell, unbearably mannered as Malvolio, plays with clearheaded reason and heartbreaking foresight. Together, the shows remind what should be an envious U.S. that its neighbor has a grand if at times misguided national theater. --By William A. Henry...
While Harvardians pampered the privileged percussion piece, rival schools were not so gentle with the drum. In 1947, an envious Eli attempted to crash through its cowhide face. But with tense skin and resounding timbre, the drum knocked the student unconscious...