Word: hinting
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Though Fefu’s troubled marriage and off-kilter proclamations that women are loathsome creatures hint that she is bound for the sort of morbid state that envelops Julia, she maintains a cheerfully unsettling demeanor most of the time...
Finally, with the controversy between West and Summers, conservatives expressed their hopes even more vocally. Seeing a disregard for political correctness in Summers’ apparent willingness to take on the star black professor and a hint of ambivalence in his attitude towards affirmative action, the Right delighted that they had an ally in Mass. Hall...
What Dershowitz’s torture warrants would authorize is cringe-inducing. We get a hint in his op-ed: “The warrant would limit torture to nonlethal means, such as sterile needles being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain without endangering life...
...combative CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, predicted the breakup would add 50% to the stock price. Going him one better, Don MacDougall of J.P. Morgan Chase said the move would make the stock worth $80 to $90 a share--double the current price. Haven't they heard? Post Enron, any hint of questionable accounting is the functional equivalent of finding asbestos in everything a company makes. So a day that dawned with promise for Kozlowski quickly turned to loss. By week's end Tyco shares were at $45, down 3% from the day before its breakup was announced--and down 24% since...
...remains to be seen whether Duncan was covering his own trail (as Andersen declared Wednesday when it fired him and handed the feds his scalp as a peace offering) or just taking an obvious hint from a destruction-policy memo from an Andersen lawyer, which was the story Duncan was telling congressional investigators deep into Wednesday night. But he sure knew enough to go on a shredding-and-deleting rampage that, the firm says, lasted from Oct. 23 to "shortly after" Nov. 9, the day the SEC sent over its subpoena...