Word: lynching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...must have taken himself for a pony, or a Clydesdale, why not. I would have crushed him gladly, I loathe children, and it would have been doing him a service, but I was afraid of reprisals. Everyone is a parent, that is what keeps you from hoping... They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance." As Fiennes spat out this comic misanthropy, the audience let out communal barks of involuntary, sometimes chagrined giddiness, and at the end erupted in applause...
...your spit sample sent in the mail. But the question is, How helpful is the information you receive? How accurate? The science behind these tests is still so new that some health regulators and medical professionals are questioning their validity and their practical utility. TIME.com's Sarah N. Lynch recently sat down with Linda Avey, co-founder of one of the industry's leaders, 23andMe, based in Mountain View, Calif...
...Wall Street, Don Regan was called disruptive, cold, irreverent--and he led Merrill Lynch to the top. At the Treasury Department, he was said to be insensitive, arrogant, unsophisticated--and he helped launch the nation on one of the longest peacetime booms in history. As chief of staff of the White House, Regan has been accused of being unfeeling, narrow-minded, egotistical --and the President he serves now stands at an all-time high in prestige and acclaim. ''When you are on the inside, quite obviously you always think you are doing a better job, perhaps, than some...
...beast is back - and Asia could be headed into turbulent economic times. Merrill Lynch says that in May, the average inflation rate throughout the region reached nearly 7%, led by spikes in oil and food prices. That was sharply higher than the 2.5% rate in May 2007 - and that's just the regional average. In India, inflation jumped to an 11.6% annual rate in June, according to the latest government figures, the highest in 13 years. In Vietnam, one of Asia's fastest-growing economies, inflation has reached as high as 27% in the past few months...
...lowest level in 54 years, down significantly from $43 last fall after the automaker had signed a new four-year labor contract with the United Auto Workers that included significant concessions. JPMorgan said the company has to raise $10 billion in fresh capital in the next several months. Merrill Lynch was even less optimistic. "We believe there is potential downside in the stock below $7 and that bankruptcy is not impossible if the market continues to deteriorate and significant incremental capital is not raised," Merrill Lynch analyst John Murphy wrote in a note to investors...