Word: loudmouthing
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...Loudmouth crooks are just one of the CSRC's headaches. Its main problem is its failure to free itself from governmental meddling. One of the CSRC's key responsibilities is to determine which companies can list their stocks on the market, but these regulatory decisions are often muddied by political considerations. The CSRC would like to approve more private companies, which generate the bulk of China's new jobs, are growing fast and might thus be attractive to prospective investors. However, the CSRC remains part of the State Council, China's Cabinet, which insists that 75% of new listings must...
...Spike Jonze because he would just make up stuff, but this time he doesn't utter a single lie for me. In the past he has pretended to be his own assistant, canceling an interview with a reporter over and over again; he has acted like a Corvette-driving loudmouth for the BBC; he has staged a fight in a fast-food restaurant for Spin magazine; he has refused to admit he was the intentionally bad choreographer in his Fatboy Slim Praise You video. He used to care...
...being a portrait of a typical teenager when Lily spies on her sister making out with another girl in the woods. "I thought only guys could be homos," she thinks, "this is so sick!" Later, when Lily makes the mistake of fooling around with, and then rejecting, the neighborhood loudmouth rumors about her sister become a weapon for him. Without being dramatic about it, "Summer of Love" ends on a note of sisterly solidarity...
...evidence but they didn't bribe their way out," says police chief Tang. He offers a different explanation for Liang's activism: "He's angry that his veteran's benefits ran out, and when the government refused to give more he started making trouble." He paints Liang as a loudmouth who police have detained three times: first, for swiping police handcuffs and truncheons, then for swearing at officers he accused of corruption and finally for playing poker in a restaurant. (Gambling is illegal in China.) Liang denies only the thefts...
...kilometers up a narrow road, a retired Dutch couple named Hans and Maria Das say they saw Einhorn and Flodin every couple of months. "He was a loudmouth," Maria says, and carried on like an attack dog when someone disagreed...