Word: roguish
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...people in Calcutta believe the heyday of the bourse, or its roguish charm, can be restored. The city's private financiers were burned by the crash and are less willing to take risks, even for a friend. "All the trust has been lost," laments Kanta Prasad Changoiwala. Volumes on the bourse are expected to take another hit after July 2, when SEBI plans to introduce new rules?including regulated futures and options trading?aimed at controlling market hijinks. Some brokers think the Calcutta Stock Exchange may cease to exist altogether in a few months. For Changoiwala it would...
...more old man vs. new man. Compare Bush-Cheney with Clinton-Gore. With the Democratic boomers, we had archetypes of new men. Clinton was a classic. A believer in feminism because it gave him greater opportunities to meet women and have sex, Clinton knew how to disguise his roguish heart with a new man's patter. He talked the talk on women's rights, gave his wife an unelected office and backed abortion rights to the nth degree. But behind the scenes, like most male feminists in the 1970s, he was talking dirty with Vernon Jordan and manhandling the help...
...president’s mansion on Elmwood Avenue is far away from campus, in order to shield him from the roguish mobery of student vigilantes, a danger that admittedly did not go away when the Vietnam War did. The president’s house is on a small sidestreet off of Upper Brattle Street, appropriately nicknamed Tory Row since the palaces there were the homes of those sympathetic to the crown in the battle for American Independence two centuries ago. Those were not brave spirits. Those were cool considerate men of moderation and caution. Sellouts of their day. The president...
...from warheads fired by "rogue" states, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has spent much of the past five years talking up the North Korean threat. Rumsfeld and other administration hawks have never been comfortable with the Clinton policy of offering North Korea economic aid in exchange for curbing its roguish ways, seeing this as simply encouraging Pyongyang to keep on blackmailing the West. And despite Powell's statements earlier in the week, the Bush team had made no secret on the campaign trail of its skepticism over bribing North Korea to play ball. Bush aides had even dissuaded President Clinton...
...universe that every era has its cute British rock band and its brooding British rock band. The early '60s had the cuddly Beatles and the roguish Rolling Stones; the '70s and '80s had the romantic Police and the revolutionary Clash; the '90s had jocular Oasis and snide Blur. Since Radiohead, the band infamously given to brooding, has emerged as the most prominent British rock export of the early '00s, the rise of a cute alternative has seemed almost inevitable...