Word: lurch
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...year. The problem for the Bay Area boils down to this: except for one short section, the plates on either side of the San Andreas are tightly locked together. It's only when the stress becomes overwhelming that the San Andreas breaks apart, allowing the plates to lurch forward, 10 ft. to 20 ft. at a time...
...than the explosive leadoff track, “The View From The Afternoon.” Crammed with myriad ideas that each would have made for a perfectly decent Blur song, the track barrels along, picking up so much momentum that it eventually crashes to a halt, only to lurch back up to speed again. Despite its four-minute runtime, it feels epic...
...paramilitary allies behave little better, raping, abducting and executing civilians thought to support Tamil nationalism. Both sides accuse the other, explaining any killings carried out by their side of the divide as forgivable retaliation. The violence over the winter prompted the new international effort to prevent a lurch back into all-out war. But Erik Solheim, Norway's International Development Minister and the chief mediator in the conflict, warns that the Geneva talks are unlikely to produce quick results. Sri Lanka, he says, won't be "sorted out in a few months...
...biggest concern is that a failure to make progress in trade liberalization could mean a lurch toward protectionism. The mood in many parts of the world is turning hostile to free trade in the face of low-cost competition from China in manufactured goods and India in IT services. As evidence, consider how the recent accords that Washington and Brussels struck with Beijing imposed new limits on the growth of textile imports from China?trade barriers that had been eliminated earlier in the year. That sort of backsliding, coupled with efforts by many countries to negotiate bilateral or regional trade...
...management tool: the hatchet. He axed 26,000 jobs and browbeat suppliers to lower costs, but he also introduced what he called "disciplined pizazz"--a program to bring a focus on efficiency to the company's business operations without sacrificing its character. The imperious Schrempp, by contrast, continued to lurch from crisis to crisis until the Daimler board showed him the exit, three years before his contract expired. DaimlerChrysler stock soared about 10% on the news. The change of leadership "dramatically alters investor perceptions," said Merrill's London-based auto analyst Stephen Reitman, who upgraded the stock to neutral...