Word: gallingly
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...their enormous wages, they then have the gall to charge kids $15 for an autograph...
...hard to come by. Even when a cause-and-effect relationship is established, as in major industrial accidents, the data are confusing. In the years after a large dioxin release in 1976 in Seveso, Italy, for example, the incidence of leukemias, lymphomas and soft-tissue cancers in men and gall-bladder and bile- duct cancers in women rose -- but breast and endometrial cancers in women actually went down. Possible reason: dioxin may sometimes interfere with the hormone system in beneficial ways...
...practicer of genocide and treachery. It's true that Arafat has been a terrorist, murderer, and sly politician in his many years as one of Israel's chief adversaries. Seeing his face plastered all over television and on placards on what used to be Israeli soil must profoundly gall Israelis old enough to remember the atrocities of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The problem is that the Israelis must tolerate Arafat more than ever before, because he is absolutely necessary to the continuance of peace...
...apart" a new prophet from among themselves. If tradition is a guide, they will select the chief of the council as Benson's successor and the Mormon Church's 14th president -- in this case Howard Hunter. At 86, Hunter, who had open-heart surgery eight years ago and a gall- bladder operation last year, will be the first head of the Mormon Church born in the 20th century...
...possible, my final week of studying had filled my head with a welter of black holes, bent time and astral planes. I was academically ready to watch and receive whatever the sons of the Gene Roddenberry were positing as the trek to end all treks. I even had the gall to guess at the cause of the Enterprise's misfortune (I was wrong; Cores are quantitative approaches to knowledge after all, and if Data was stumped for most of the show, clearly I would be stumped...