Word: jiltings
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...runs for office. Like Mark Foley, he is caught in a sexual scandal just before the election. The brilliant script by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles is about a powerful man's need to be loved by the millions of people whose lives he dominates. And when they jilt him, he rationalizes the rejection by spinning tales of conspiracy. His newspaper runs the headline FRAUD AT POLLS...
Investors still stinging from last year's run of Wall Street and CEO lies now find they can't trust mutual funds either. Turns out the $6.9 trillion fund industry might be just as willing to jilt the little guy when monster fees are on the line. This revelation is a black eye for a business that so far has been largely scandal free...
...moment, Yahoo! News unquestionably has the edge. Devotees trust the site for up to the minute headlines, photos, and commentary from a cadre of well-known sources. Yahoo! also has well-trodden daily features such as "most popular photo" and other favorites. Most news junkies won't jilt it any time soon...
...relationship with her husband can't compare with her relationship with the press. The latter has certainly been more faithful than the former; but after untold millions of photos, miles of film and acres of newsprint, the most chronicled woman in the world has decided it is time to jilt the cameras that love...
...breakwater, directs at Charles Smithson, the aristocratic young idler who approaches her there, must be so devastating that his comfortable life tumbles into chaos. He must, as the result of this unexpected collision with a woman of whom he knows nothing, begin a slide that leads him to jilt his wealthy fiancée, confess publicly to dishonor and lead the life of a lonely exile...