Word: furiouser
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...says Tang glumly, his wife is "telling me almost every day that maybe it's time to go back to a regular job." These days who could blame her? After a furious 18-month run that saw shares of listed Chinese companies more than triple in value, the country's bull market is stumbling. Indexes in Shanghai and Shenzhen are both down about 15% from their October peaks, and recent moves by the government to cool China's runaway economic growth appear to have deflated the mania for stock investing that has gripped urban Chinese, from maids who quit their...
...Neidl, director of U.S. research for airline financier Calyon Securities, says that while consolidation is not imminent, when it comes "it will be fast and furious." In an industry update dated Nov. 7, Neidl wrote that "the most probable kickoff" would be Delta bidding for Anderson's alma mater Northwest Airlines, due to no overlap in routes and a smooth integration of workforce seniority lists. Neidl, like other analysts, says that six major carriers will give way to fewer - probably three - as consolidation begins in two or three quarters, or perhaps longer...
...What came after, Operation Vigilant Resolve, followed logically from the bigotry of this diagnosis. All of “them” just couldn’t matter as much as “us.” And thus, after roughly a week of furious and sustained military activity, reports were emerging that “over 600 Iraqis ha[d] been killed by American aggression, and the residents ha[d] turned two football fields into graveyards.” While no undisputed account of the details of the devastation exists, doctors working on the ground were seething with...
...levels it is, alas, true. One sees it, for instance, in the bristling posture of denial that the Australian government recently took against U.N. criticism of its flouting of the human rights of Aborigines. Australians still tend to be worried about what outsiders think, keep asking and then get furious if the answer is even fractionally less than flattering...
With a touching air of realism, the play focuses on a town so plagued by drought that a soulless corporation, Urine Good Company (UGC), has created and monopolized a market for all public toilets. The town’s penny-scrounging denizens are furious about this fee-to-pee policy, but don’t do much more than cross their legs and hold. At last, a revolution blooms when an old man is apprehended for publicly relieving himself and banished to Urinetown, a restroom that evokes Orwell’s Room 101. The remainder of the play indiscriminately parodies...