Word: erraticism
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It is in Beijing, of course, that the impact of the Games is felt most intensely. Zhong Hongwu of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences calculates that total Olympics-related expenditures by Beijing will hit $38 billion, some four times as much as was spent preparing Athens for the 2004...
For schoolchildren, the first day of summer arrives with agonizing tardiness, and the last with frantic haste; those bordered out by these two are filled with erratic dalliances. There may be haphazard tree forts one week and trips to the waterslides the next, or there may be sandcastles first and...
To the list of injustices Spanish farmers face - falling subsidies, erratic weather, irksome E.U. regulations - add the humble mountain vole. Few worried when the furry rodents first appeared on the plains of Castilla-León last fall. But by summer, a curious nuisance had become a devastating plague. These...
I don't know where the Democratic National Committee chairman was in late 2000, but I was here in Florida, shuttling between Miami, Tallahassee and Palm Beach County to cover the surreal presidential vote recount. You didn't have to have a Ph.D. in political science to learn from that...
Support for Olmert's plans to remove settlers has ebbed. So far, his government has failed to find homes and jobs for many of the 8,500 embittered settlers evicted from Gaza in 2005. Nor has the handover of Gaza to Palestinians brought any calm: Palestinian militants continue to shower...