Word: reared
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...Philippines, workers have demonstrated over mistreatment by Japanese bosses. Anti-Japanese fervor in China has shifted from complaints about war atrocities to gripes about selling shoddy merchandise. In one case, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. recalled four-wheel-drive Pajeros in Europe and North America because of a faulty rear brake. Customers there got free repairs. Chinese owners did not. Only after a Chinese government-affiliated consumers' group filed suit did Mitsubishi agree to pay compensation. Similarly, Toshiba offered free repairs and compensation for faulty laptop computers sold in the U.S. while Chinese buyers were left in the lurch. "Such behavior...
...numbers. And that's what all the cautious optimism is about. The world isn't likely to go into recession unless the U.S. does, in the U.S., the current thinking is that with Greenspan still slashing interest rates and the apparent winter trough of U.S. growth receding in the rear-view mirror, the worst of America's troubles with its burst bubble may be over...
Before the tragedy, Waddle represented the "new Navy" preached by his mentor, Rear Admiral Konetzni--one with a more solicitous, flexible command style for a Navy of volunteers, not conscripts. While Waddle can be obsessively gregarious, he is also astonishingly attentive to details heard in conversation. He can remember waiters' names days after they have served him in a restaurant, and acquaintances' names from 25 years ago. He would track the lives and careers of his crew, regularly inquiring about girlfriends, family crises, career plans. "I detested the way I was treated as a junior officer early on--like...
...reveals a 20:1 girl to guy ratio. Indeed, it seems the only specimens of the male persuasion are reluctant boyfriends—one of them is curiously out of place in a Jim Morrison jacket, trying to look nonchalant. Somewhere, off in the far rear section of the line, an impossibly shrill voice pierces the winter frost and highlights the ineffable strangeness of the night: “Oh my God! I touched...
...evening wore on, a battle of wills began in a rear corner office. Riley attempted to remove protesters from the office and when that failed he stationed two officers to guard the office...