Word: harshness
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...turned this experience into what amounts to his own harsh Strindbergian Ghost Sonata remains a mystery. One can easily imagine someone less guilt ridden than Bergman regarding the incident more as a youthful folly than as a life-shaping event. The facts of the matter are mundane enough, as he says in his book. In 1949, Bergman and a journalist named Gun Hagberg, both unhappily married, entered into a passionate affair, beginning with a long tryst in Paris, and continuing after their return to Sweden, where she discovered she was pregnant with his child. A bitter wrangle with her husband...
...unusually harsh winter has also served notice that a commodity influenced by weather has plenty of surprises in store for purchasers. Most newer power plants are fueled by natural gas, the price of which goes up as the temperature goes down. In a regulated environment, consumers are more insulated from these free-market insults...
...Westchester County, one of the first areas in the country to have retail rates entirely deregulated, have soared as much as 30%. Although most of that increase is due to rising cost of the gas and oil that power generators in the Northeast, it has also cast a harsh light on independent power producers and middlemen who rule the wholesale market. To reduce any chance of foul play, the New York State public service commission is considering the implementation of a temporary, $150 per megawatt-hour wholesale price cap. Producers say the cap will discourage investment, but commission chairman Maureen...
This somewhat pathetic rant can easily be viewed a very bored student embittered by harsh realities. And so what...
...White testimony out and rehash his past alongside Ashcroft's, making it a sort of dual hearing. But the GOP must have decided they're ahead on points - Ashcroft will be confirmed, so why have every civil rights and liberal group in the country up in arms over a harsh line of questioning...