Word: revolting
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...revolt was slow in coming, that may be because most Americans hate to hate the rich. They'd rather envy them and hope to get there themselves. The '90s offered a whole new breed of heroes, not starchy heirs to fortune but barefoot geniuses who discovered new worlds in their garages, who wrote best sellers and sat grinning from magazine covers and defended the billions they made on the grounds that they were making us all rich in the process. You did not actually need to get richer to feel richer; even other people's paper profits had a magical...
...then he’d have a faculty revolt on his hands and more years like this one—with concrete progress overshadowed by shocking failure...
With Spitzer and, belatedly, the Securities and Exchange Commission pressing for reforms, analysts' opinions may again mean something someday. In the trove of e-mails that Spitzer uncovered are hints of revolt among analysts who would welcome an environment in which they were encouraged to put the client first. But that's for later. For now, investors should seek research outside the big brokerages--including among the analysts who have fled them...
...Asian stock investors are starting to demand more respect, though. In Japan, apparel company Tokyo Style is fending off a rare revolt by shareholders who want a bigger dividend from the company's $1 billion cash reserve. Looking to boost investor confidence in the market, Chinese regulators have launched a campaign against embezzlement by listed companies. In Malaysia, private investors have established the Minority Shareholders Watchdog Group, and a similar body has been formed in Taiwan...
...recalls former trainer Yang Dong Su. "There was a lot of tension." On the morning of Aug. 23, 1971, the recruits snapped. One of them walked into the camp commander's office with a laundry basket, pulled out a crowbar and drove it through the commander's forehead. The revolt quickly turned into a massacre, with 17 guards gunned down or drowned trying to flee the island. Yang took a bullet through the neck but survived...