Word: mayhemic
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...There is a large number of people, mainly women, who do not play sports or see much point in watching professional sports," says John Quelch, a professor of marketing at Harvard Business School. "They have a competitive spirit that manifests itself on Black Friday." Adding to the mayhem, says Lars Perner, a marketing professor at San Diego State University, is that "people are tired and frustrated" after skimping for months to pay higher gasoline bills. "It's like the people who diet," he says, "and then Christmas comes, and they overeat...
...Chaos,” “disorder,” “random violence,” “rampant lawlessness,” and “mayhem.” These are but a few of the colorful terms used to describe the urban warfare that erupted throughout the French Republic over two weeks ago. While the French riots certainly saw an increase in the intensity of urban violence, though, the actual incidents of malfeasance—burning cars, pelting police and firemen with rocks and bottles—are very common. Despite the popular...
...those seeking to cause mayhem on the high seas, the waters off Somalia are among the world's most alluring. Somalia has lacked an effective central government for 14 years, and the U.S. believes that al-Qaeda--linked militants operate there. Combined Task Force 150, a multinational naval unit, patrols in the nearby Gulf of Aden and the waters around the Horn of Africa, searching for suspected terrorists who may be moving equipment or people by sea or planning a maritime attack. But with its attention focused on stopping terrorists, the U.S. Navy has been hesitant about pursuing pirates...
...Dominion, Kaine, 47, and his opponent, Republican Jerry Kilgore, 44, held their election-night parties across the street from each other in downtown Richmond, with an Elton John concert two blocks away, creating mayhem in the normally sedate capital. Kilgore's bash, decorated with bunches of balloons in the hunters' blaze orange that was his campaign trademark, never got started. It was in a vast space, with no toes tapping to the toe-tapping country music. Across Fifth Street, Democrats roared as each update about the race was flashed on the Richmond stations' ticker running beneath prime-time entertainment programming...
Sarkozy's law-and-order campaign to crack the crime and drug rings in immigrant neighborhoods has raised hackles. So has his penchant for tough talk: he once said criminal elements should be cleaned out with an "industrial power hose." Just days before the mayhem ignited, he went into a troubled banlieue and slammed rebellious youths as "scum"--which some protesters say stoked their anger. The rioting "is going to go on until they pull Sarkozy out of office," says K-Soc, 19, in Bobigny. "He heats things up and then leaves us here to deal with the police...