Word: rabidly
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...death of a Wal-Mart security guard in New York on Black Friday has Americans lamenting the human condition. The shoppers at the Valley Stream store have been called "rabid," "pathetic" "savages" with "no souls." There have been calls for criminal prosecutions against these "animals." Wal-Mart, meanwhile, has claimed it prepared for the crush by bringing on outside security and additional sales staff. "Despite all of our precautions," said Wal-Mart executive Hank Mullany in a thrillingly passive turn of phrase, "this unfortunate event occurred...
...Reed adds that in order to survive - especially if Obama and the Democrats can somehow navigate the country out of the current crisis - the GOP needs to recognize that a growing number of the governors gathered in Miami this week won their statehouses by steering away from the rabid right. In 2005, Crist, then Florida's attorney general, declined to help Governor Jeb Bush and religious conservatives in their crusade to keep Terri Schiavo on life support. The following year, on a platform that ignored the culture wars and focused on bipartisan fixes to Florida's nagging property...
...undecided voter, if only because she - about 63% of this year's undecideds are women, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press - is entirely uninfected by that great enemy of deliberative democracy: wild-eyed enthusiasm. Unlike the freakishly devoted Obama acolytes and those rabid, occasionally obscenity-shouting McCain-Palin fans, the undecided voter is taking her time. She's also one of the few Americans whose vote this year could actually be decisive, since some polls in swing states like Florida and Missouri show the undecided bloc to be larger than either candidate's lead...
...know yet which strategy worked. But the pundits who have analyzed the candidates' styles may be missing something. McCain has promised a "steady hand on the tiller"; Obama, a cool head in a crisis. I suspect that part of what the country wants after more than a year of rabid electotainment is a firm hand on the volume dial--a calming response not just to the economy or to partisanship but also to the incessant shrieking, browbeating, Chicken Littling of the media. They want someone to push not Refresh but Pause...
...Prime Minister Gordon Brown-want to go beyond that activity and place the IMF at the center of a reformed, unified, and better-regulated global finance system. Sarkozy has gone so far as to call for the "moralization of finance markets" and "re-foundation of capitalism". Though the most rabid adepts of laissez-faire systems like the U.S. are expected to rebuff such efforts to impose international strictures, Strauss-Kahn's profile as a respected economist and market-friendly leftist leaves him in a rare spot: The head of an international agency about to extend its powers that political...