Word: fronting
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...chest-thumping - was the province of those jingoistic Yanks. When I was a teenager, the flag fluttered benignly on national holidays. There were occasions on which it flew prolifically, such as the 1988 national bicentenary celebrations or the 2000 Sydney Olympics. But generally it was not hawkishly displayed on front lawns, from cars or on bare flesh. My husband asked one of the revelers why he was wearing the flag. He grinned and drawled, "Why? Because we're Australians, mate. We're proud of it, and we're not afraid to say it." (See pictures of Australia's hidden islands...
...manager of a Dubai real estate brokerage, Imran Mohamed, a Scot of Pakistani descent, had a front-row seat at one of the most incredible property bubbles ever. Early last year, a few months before the height of the emirate's boom, he fought his way through the lines at the opening sale of a new waterfront condominium development. Such launches always attracted crowds of investors eager to get the first shot at a new offering, but the buzz that day was especially intense, remembers Mohamed. (He asks that his real name not be used because his company...
...Liddy should have concluded his March testimony and cross examination in front of the House Financial Services subcommittee by pulling a blank sheet of paper from his brief case, writing his resignation on it, and handing it to chairman Barney Frank. Liddy is too class an act to have done that. He at least waited until AIG has reached a more stable state and left without a word of anger...
...should we be? The answer is that we may not know for weeks or months - the world has been hit with pandemics before, but what is happening now is unprecedented. "For the first time in humanity, we are seeing, or we may be seeing, pandemic influenza evolving in front of our eyes," said Margaret Chan, the director-general of the WHO, at the agency's annual meeting...
Over 20 students gathered in front of the Holyoke Center Wednesday evening to protest Harvard University Health Services’ decision to discontinue anonymous HIV testing. Waving signs that read “My right to privacy includes my right to anonymity” and “I’m pro-testing,” the group of students from the College as well as several graduate schools assembled by Massachusetts Ave. after abandoning their plans to conduct a “test-in.” Protestors had originally planned to request HIV tests en masse...