Word: monsters
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Morgan's philosophical legacy is more troublesome. He regarded competition as wasteful and chaotic, which in his day it often was. To bring stability and order to the economy--and to fulfill what he regarded as his moral responsibility to safeguard clients' investments--he organized monster trusts. Notably, he midwifed the 1901 merger that created U.S. Steel, the world's first billion-dollar corporation. Such behemoths have spurred economic growth and technological advance. But can they get so big and powerful that the government is justified in breaking them up? If so, when? And how can that be done without...
...Nazi Germany and the former Soviet Union were the monsters of the 20th century, China has all the makings of becoming the monster of the 21st century. The Chinese government steals technology from the U.S., sells arms and technology illegally to other countries, violates human rights with impunity, amasses nuclear weapons, continues to occupy Tibet and threatens Taiwan's safety and security. Yet it always gets a sweetheart deal from the U.S. and is crowned a most favored nation. By the time we finally wake up, the monster will have emerged full-fledged. CHARLES PUTHOTA Milwaukee...
...pedestal some years ago. In the 1960s, Lawrance Thompson, his official biographer and onetime friend, published a three-volume life that was in many ways hostile. Revisionism is one of the cheap thrills of literary biography. Thompson reported that Frost had been, behind his endearing facade, something of a monster. He described, for example, the night Frost's daughter Lesley stumbled downstairs into the kitchen when her parents were fighting. Frost was holding a revolver, according to Thompson, and the poet told Lesley to choose which parent she preferred, since one of them would be dead by morning...
...just being characteristically polite. His attitude toward the uses that had been made of his invention was more ferocious. His son Kent was once asked what that attitude was. He said, "I suppose you could say that he felt he had created kind of a monster, a way for people to waste a lot of their lives...
...tired, Sebadoh was not prepared for the raucousness of the crowd at the Roxy. Tired of chanting at the radio, people took the pauses between songs as opportunities to shout at Lou and Jason. Answering sometimes, Jason finally stated dryly, "Alright, people from Boston shouting." But like an irreverent monster beyond anyone's control, the crowd heaved and surged until finally it produced a young woman, who perched on the shoulders of someone near the front. Throwing both her shirt and bra at Lou, she crowd surfed until she was dropped, then clamored up onto the stage...