Word: frigidities
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...course, the world's telecom-investment climate is considerably more frigid than it was just a few years ago. In 2000, when wireless mania was at its apex, everyone thought consumers were dying for high-speed networks and mobile phones that could stream video calls, download movie clips and access online game networks. Caught up in the high-tech hype, mobile carriers rushed into the future, spending a now seemingly absurd $89.5 billion on 3G licenses in Europe alone...
...when Big Bad Larry expressed concern over anti-Semitism at elite universities earlier this year. And, while leaving the final decision up to the English department, Summers is said to have objected to Paulin’s selection in private conversations with faculty, who supposedly found these conversations downright frigid...
Saturday’s tailgates, on a muddy field in frigid weather, culminated weeks of debate over whether the administration’s decision to ban kegs would curb irresponsible drinking—or endanger students who chose to guzzle hard liquor instead...
...floor of the north Atlantic, in the frigid depths off Spain's craggy Costa da Morte (Death Coast), sits a time bomb. The Prestige lies in shame, 145 nautical miles off the northwestern state of Galicia, and its remaining cargo - at least 55,000 tons of thick fuel oil - could detonate in days, weeks or months into a great black tide of viscous goo, unleashing one of the worst marine disasters ever. But if King Neptune is kind, the sunken tanker may just sleep, its cargo solidified, having done all the dirty work it will ever do. Its work...
Instead of frigid gray Boston, I will see a Friendly Manhattan followed by a gay Manhattan, a sunny Miami and a drama-packed Chicago. The logical questions won’t be asked: Isn’t New York City a slushy mush of snow and dog poop in the winter? Don’t people blow away in Chicago on a regular basis? No, no. TV world is Happy World, and for three hours every Thursday night, I’m a part...