Word: madcaps
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Lots of things about the novel do work. Wray deposits moments of exposition at key points in his apparent madcap narrative, showing the careful planning and loving consideration of a first-rate writing talent. His prose flies along with the unstoppable force of a subway train, but he can still make me pause and wring my heart out over poor Lowboy...
...safe to say that at the same time elsewhere in Spain, a monk, a Zorro, a clown and a Pink Panther were doing the same thing. (See pictures of Spain's Madcap Tomato Festival...
...This is the reason behind the Obama team's madcap multitasking. As press secretary Robert Gibbs put it the other day, the whole American house is on fire, not just the particular room where the flames happen to be roaring. "Are you going to call the fire department and ask them to put all of it out?" Gibbs asked. "Or are you going to say, 'You know what? We love the living room. Start over there. And if you can, get quickly to the kitchen, and next to the den.' We could do that. And maybe by the time they...
...four largest industrial conglomerates, was a shocker, but not because anyone was surprised by Daewoo's abysmal financial condition. That was obvious. The group was amassing dizzying amounts of debt in an ill-conceived global expansion (especially at its car company). A year earlier, I had called Daewoo's madcap strategy "corporate suicide" in the Wall Street Journal. The surprise was that policymakers and bankers had the guts to allow Daewoo to collapse. Daewoo was an icon of Korea's astounding economic miracle. Aside from cars, group companies made trucks, ships and TV sets, brokered stocks and built buildings...
...municipal burial place into what is essentially a power plant. The installation consists of 462 solar panels spread over roughly 10,700 sq. ft. (1000 sq. m.), and has a capacity of 100 kilowatts, enough to meet the energy needs of 60 families. (See pictures from Spain's madcap tomato festival...