Word: furiouser
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...persuade the Queen to fly the royal standard at Buckingham Palace at half-mast (it had not been lowered when her father the King died) or to make any convincingly warm gesture toward the memory of Diana-who had been leaking viciously against the Windsors for years. Angry crowds, furious commentators and smart advisers persuaded Elizabeth within days that a seismic change had shot through public opinion, and the funeral, organized largely by her aides, was a success for her and as a tribute to Diana's memory...
...game was finally ending. Furious investors unleashed a maelstrom of lawsuits against G.O. Group. In March, police raided its Tokyo offices. In April, G.O. Group was forced into bankruptcy. Ogami has yet to be arrested but the investigation continues; the onetime self-promoter now is unavailable for interviews. Associates, including Inoue, claim Ogami still hides a personal net worth of at least $5 million, but the company's known assets?including real estate and Ogami's fleet of cars?have been seized. All that's left at G.O. Group's Tokyo headquarters is a mountain of discarded telephones stacked...
...market has been seeded with dozens of copy-protected CDs, often without the consumer's knowledge. Most, like Natalie Imbruglia's White Lilies Island, on Bertelsmann's BMG, were released in Europe, but in the U.S., if you bought a copy of Universal Music's More Fast and Furious, the second volume of the sound track from the movie, or Enter the Life of Suella by an artist named Pretty Willie, then congratulations!--you're a copy-protection guinea pig. Critics of copy protection say its side effects are potentially disastrous: the discs may not work...
Motherhood has a new voice, and it's not soothing. It's strident; it's furious; it's incredulous; it's dog tired. A generation of women raised on a steady diet of self-determinism and you-go-girlism have had kids. And these competent, successful, articulate femmes are shocked by how hard it is. Pregnancy! Labor! Babies! Toddlers! Teens! What's an intelligent woman to do? Increasingly, the answer is, Write a book...
...even the companies themselves get to play oracle. For weeks, Wall Street has been a chastened bettor, placing few bets and admitting its ignorance. Then Cisco announced after the bell Tuesday that the year in tech looked pretty good - and Wednesday the casino was jumping again with a furious rally that added 122 points to the NASDAQ and 305 points to the Dow, the biggest daily gains of 2002. Nobody even complained about Cisco's obvious conflict of interest as a company that stands to profit from a tech rebirth...